RGS Automobile Components

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RGS Automobile Components Ltd
legal form Limited
founding 1949
resolution 1962
Seat Windsor , UK
management Richard G. Shattocks
Branch Automobile manufacturer

RGS Automobile Components Ltd was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Richard G. Shattocks ("RGS") took over what was left of Atalanta Motors in 1949 . From 1950 he built a few racing cars on Atalanta chassis with engines from Jaguar or Aston Martin under the name RGS Atalanta . Because he was still convinced of the concept of the chassis, he took over the entire remaining inventory in 1953, founded his own company in Windsor and started manufacturing automobiles that same year. The brand name remained RGS Atalanta . Depending on the source, production lasted until 1958 or 1962. A total of around 100 vehicles were built.

vehicles

Vehicles sold

The first twelve vehicles had an ordinary chassis . Later in 1953, John Griffith designed a ladder frame that from then on formed the basis of the vehicle. The body was made of fiberglass , which was unusual for a British vehicle at the time. The body manufacturer was initially North East Coast Yacht Building & Engineering Company Ltd , from 1958 Precision Reinforced Moldings Ltd and then Microplas .

Most of the vehicles were also fitted with Jaguar engines; On request, Shattocks also supplied versions with engines from Bentley , Aston Martin , Lea-Francis or with used V12 engines from Lincoln (production ended after 1948). Most of the RGS Atalanta were supplied as a kit , but RGS Automobile Components also assembled them on request .

A factory prototype from 1952 with the British registration number HBL 845 was auctioned on May 27, 2001 by the auction house Coys for 154,000 DM .

Shattocks' own racing car

As early as 1953, Shattocks built a racing car for himself with 16-inch spoked wheels and an aluminum body, which was to remain the only one without a fiberglass structure. A modified Jaguar C-Type racing engine with special valves, Warren Pearce racing intake manifold and dry sump lubrication and later three SU HD8 double carburettors instead of H8 served as drive . Shattocks drove the traditionally dark blue painted car in races until 1955. The vehicle still exists and is currently presented in British Racing Green with yellow stripes.

Competitors

In addition to RGS Atalanta , the British racing teams Cooper , HWM , Lister and Tojeiro followed a similar concept and mostly relied on Jaguar engines.

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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 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 .
  2. ↑ paralumun.com: Atalanta Motors
  3. ↑ Bernd Woytal: Successful premiere. In: Motor Klassik , edition 8/2001, p. 62.
  4. ↑ a b thecarnut.com: RGS Atalanta, reg. UKL 852 (1953)
  5. ↑ rgsatalantajaguar.com: RGS Atalanta, reg. UKL 852 (1953)