Powerspeed

Powerspeed
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founding	1970
resolution	1971
Seat	Bromley , London
management	Mervyn Aldridge
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Powerspeed was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Mervyn Aldridge founded the company in Bromley in the London Borough of Bromley in 1970 and began manufacturing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Powerbug . Production ended the following year. A total of about 148 copies were made.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. This was a VW buggy . It was similar to the Vulture that Holmesdale Motor Traders also made in Bromley. The basis was the chassis of the VW Beetle , which was either shortened or shortened depending on the version. Usually a four - cylinder boxer engine from Volkswagen powered the vehicles. However, engines from Porsche and V8 engines such. B. used by the Chevrolet Corvair .

The Dutchman Ben Walraven sold nine complete vehicles and eight kits in the Netherlands .

literature

Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 198 (English).
James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 158-159 (English).

Web links

Buggyfreunde Netherlands (Dutch, accessed December 20, 2014)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 198 (English).
↑ James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 158-159 (English).
↑ Buggyfreunde Netherlands ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch, accessed December 20, 2014) @1@ 2

[Kit_Cars-1] A ^b Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 198 (English).

[Dune_Buggy_Handbook-2] James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 158-159 (English).

[3] Buggyfreunde Netherlands ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch, accessed December 20, 2014) @1@ 2