Ron Champion

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Ron Champion Limited
legal form Limited
founding 2000
resolution 2003
Seat Peterborough , Cambridgeshire
management
  • Ron Champion
  • Clive Jefferson
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Ron Champion Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

prehistory

Ron Champion was a teacher at Oundle , Northamptonshire . He wrote the book Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £ 250 in around 1995 . It described the inexpensive construction of a sports car for the self-builder. These vehicles were called Locost . In the course of time it turned out that many interested people wanted a chassis for sale .

Company history

The company was on 27 March 2000 by the Bhardwaj Corporates Services Limited in Northwood in London district of London Borough of Hillingdon founded. Ron Champion and Clive Jefferson became directors the following day. They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was still Locost . On 5 May 2000, the company moved to Peterborough in the county of Cambridgeshire . The company was dissolved on January 21, 2003.

vehicles

The most important model, Locost , did not have a model name. It was a two-seater roadster in the style of the Lotus Seven . Luego Sports Cars continued production from 2002 to 2005 and used the Luego brand name . A total of around 150 vehicles of this model were built.

The Locost 11 was designed similarly. This was the replica of the Lotus Eleven racing car . This model found around 14 buyers between 2000 and 2001.

literature

  • 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. 917. (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. 147 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 917. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 147 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d opencorporates.com (accessed September 27, 2015)
  4. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on September 27, 2015)