Shenzhen City Zhonghua Auto Industry
Shenzhen City Zhonghua Auto Industry Corporation | |
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1985 |
resolution | 1989 |
Seat | Shenzhen , People's Republic of China |
management | Tang Jinsheng |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
Shenzhen City Zhonghua Auto Industry Corporation was an automobile manufacturer from People's Republic of China . Other sources use the name Zhonghua Auto Industrial Corp. or Shenzhen China Motor Corporation .
Company history
The Shenzhen company started manufacturing automobiles in 1985. The brand name was Zhonghua in China and Plasticar for export to Bangladesh . The company received only one for the Shenzhen area instead of a state sales permit. By September 1986, the first 500 vehicles had been completed. Production ended in 1989. The director Tang Jinsheng then moved to General Motors .
Beijing Zhonghua Automobile Industry of Beijing used the same brand name from 1994 to 1999.
vehicles
The BS 111 model was based on designs by the Jing-Jin-Ji Corporation of Beijing, designed by Tang Jinshen. Originally, this was a two-door, four-seat pickup truck . The body was made of plastic . The standard model had front-wheel drive , the BS 111 B rear-wheel drive . The payload was 300 kg.
A tubular frame formed the basis of the vehicles. The GRP enabled several different bodies. In addition to the pick-ups, two- and four-door sedans with notchbacks and hatchbacks were also created . The engines initially came from Dong'an and Daihatsu and later from Xiali .
literature
- George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1786 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Erik van Ingen Schenau: Made in China, lost small cars of the 1990s. ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 2014. (English, accessed on March 25, 2016)
- ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1786 (English).
- ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 25, 2016)
- ↑ Tycho de Feijter: History: the Zhonghua plastic cars from China on Car News China from February 9, 2012. (English, accessed March 25, 2016)