Squire Motors
Squire Sports Car Company Limited (1984–1993) Squire Motors Limited (1993) |
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legal form | Limited |
founding | 1984 |
resolution | 1993 |
Seat | Crediton , Devon |
management | Rodney Rushton |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
Squire Motors Limited , previously Squire Sports Car Company Limited , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
1984 Phil Kennedy founded the company Squire Sports Car Company Limited in Hartlebury in the county of Worcestershire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Squire . The company moved several times: in 1986 to Walsall in the West Midlands and in 1988 to Bridgnorth in Shropshire . In 1993 it was taken over by Rodney Rushton, renamed Squire Motors Limited and relocated to Crediton in Devon . Production ended in the same year. In total, exactly 16 or about 20 copies were made.
Marlin Engineering took over the project but stopped producing.
vehicles
The vehicles were similar to the Squire Car models from the 1930s. A steel ladder frame formed the base. An open two-seater body was mounted on it. Initially, a four-cylinder engine from the Ford Cortina powered the vehicles. Later, four-cylinder engines were Alfa Romeo 1750 cc engine capacity and V8 engines from Rover available. Initially, the body was made of aluminum and only the fenders were made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic ("fiberglass", GRP). In 1987 the original model was renamed S when the Sports expanded the range with a cheaper to manufacture body made of GRP.
literature
- 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 , pp. 1488-1489. (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. 237 (English).
Web links
- Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f 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 , pp. 1488-1489. (English)
- ↑ 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. 237 (English).