Radbourne Racing

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Radbourne Racing (Wimbledon) Limited
legal form Public company (PLC)
founding 1965
Seat Esher
management Honor Small, John Millett, Lincoln Small, Michael Small
Branch Automobiles

Radbourne Racing (Wimbledon) Limited is a British company and former manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Lincoln Small (born January 1944) founded Radbourne Racing in Isleworth in September 1965 . John Millett supported him. They imported Abarth vehicles . In 1966 they moved to Holland Park and also sold Fiat vehicles . The company was also active in the field of tuning and racing. One of the managers discovered unused bodies at the Fiat plant in Turin in 1968 and bought them. This is how automobile production began under the Radbourne brand . Production ended in 1971. The Abarth import also ended in 1971. On October 19, 1977 Radbourne was converted into a public limited company (PLC) . The company currently operates as Radbourne Racing (Wimbledon) Limited under the management of Honor Small, John Millett, Lincoln Small and Michael Small in Esher .

vehicles

The only model was the Abarth 1300 GT . The bodies bought up were coupé bodies from Abarth, which were intended for Simca-Basis. Radbourne used the chassis from the Simca 1000 and suspension from the Fiat 124 . The engine also came from the Fiat 124. The four-cylinder engine developed 75 hp from a displacement of 1280 cm³ and enabled a top speed of 160 km / h. Of the approximately 30 bodies, quite a few were no longer usable, so that only 12 vehicles were built.

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. 204 (English).
  • Georg Amtmann, Halwart Schrader : Italian sports cars. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01988-4 , pp. 378 and 441.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Company information (accessed December 20, 2014)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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. 204 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Motorsport magazine from February 1991 (English, accessed December 20, 2014)
  4. ^ A b c Georg Amtmann, Halwart Schrader: Italian sports cars. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01988-4 , pp. 378 and 441.