RMB Motors

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RMB Motors
legal form
founding 1973
resolution 1989
Seat Barwell , Leicestershire
management Roger M. Blockley
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Gentry from RMB

RMB Motors was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1973 Roger M. Blockley founded the company in Barwell in the county of Leicestershire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand names were Gentry and RMB . Production ended in 1989.

vehicles

Brand name Gentry

The only model was similar to the MG TF from the 1950s. TM Motors' Terry Phillips and Mick Sinclair continued production in 1989.

Brand name RMB

The RMB Healey was a replica of the Austin-Healey 100 . The four-cylinder engine was from the MG B . About twelve of this model were made between 1985 and 1988.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Gentry.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 617. (English)
  • 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. 103 and 213 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Gentry.
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 617. (English)
  3. ↑ 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. 103 and 213 (English).