Scootacar

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Scootacar
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Scootacar was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Scootacars Limited of Leeds began in 1957 with the production of automobiles. Production ended in 1964.

vehicles

Only one model was made. It was a small car with three wheels, with the single wheel in the back. The engine came from Villiers Ltd and was arranged in front of the rear wheel in a mid-engine design . Initially only a single-cylinder engine with 197 cm³ displacement and 8.5 hp was offered, from 1961 also a two-cylinder engine with 324 cm³ displacement and 13 hp. The closed body, which had only one door on the left side, was relatively short, narrow and high. It offered space for two people, one behind the other, with the person in the back sitting slightly offset and stretching their legs next to the driver.

Vehicles of this brand can be viewed in various small car museums.

See also

  • Rytecraft , former automobile manufacturer who used the model name Scootacar

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia , BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 , Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English)

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