Real life toys

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Real life toys
legal form
founding 1991
resolution 1995
Seat Sheffield , South Yorkshire
management John Cowperthwaite
Branch Automobiles

Real Life Toys was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1991 John Cowperthwaite founded the company in Sheffield in the county of South Yorkshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was u. a. RLT . Production ended in 1995. White Rose Vehicles continued production under its own brand name. A total of about 100 copies were made.

vehicles

One model was the RLT Husky . It was in the range from 1991 to 1995 and was similar to the Willys Jeep . The body was made of MDF . Many parts were from Ford .

The company also manufactured the Midge branded Midge between 1991 and 1992 .

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. 123 and 168 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  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. 123 and 168 (English).
  2. Chris Rees : British Specialist Cars. Postwar low-volume production cars and kit cars . Windrow & Greene, London 1993, ISBN 1-872004-22-9 , pp. 169 (English).