Royale Motor Company

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Royale Saber
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Royale Drophead
Royale Windsor

The Royale Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles . The brand name was Royale .

Company history

John Barlow founded the company in Preston in 1990 . On the basis of mass production technology, he developed three models in the style of the 1930s and sold them both fully assembled and in kit form (as so-called kit cars ). In 2001 the company was dissolved.

The Empire Motor Company from the Netherlands took over the Saber model in 2001 , handed it over to the Vintage Motor Company from Pontefract under the direction of Alan Beillby, which discontinued it in 2006 and sold it to Saber Sportscars from Wandworth under the direction of Simon Rhodes in 2009 .

There is no connection with the Royale car brand , under which various manufacturers offered a Morgan- like model called the Royale between 1981 and 1990 .

Models

The first model was the Drophead , a five-seater convertible with the chassis and drive technology of the Jaguar XJ 6 . The model was presented in 1990 and produced from June 1991. The body was made of fiberglass . Around 50 copies were made by 1998.

The second Saber model appeared in 1994. This was a sporty two-seater convertible with the chassis and drive technology of the Ford Scorpio or Sierra . For driving attended four-cylinder engines and six-cylinder engines up to 2900 cc displacement . The Saber was offered in Germany by an importer from Kassel for 80,000 DM . Of this model, which was offered by other manufacturers even more recently, around 260 copies have been made so far.

In 1998, the third and final model, the Windsor , appeared, available as a four-door sedan and a landaulet . It was based on the Ford Scorpio. Around 75 copies were made by 2001.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Royale.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1383. (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. 221 (English).

Web links

Commons : Royale Motor Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Royale.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1383. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e 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. 221 (English).