Steel Brothers

Steel Brothers (Addington) Limited was a New Zealand manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Christchurch-based company acquired the rights and designs for the fourth series Lotus Seven from Lotus Cars in 1973 . This is how the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Lotus . Production ended in 1975 or 1981.

vehicles

The original chassis has been reinforced. He weighed 9 kg more than before. First, a driving four-cylinder engine from Ford with 1,558 cc displacement to the vehicles. More than 100 vehicles were made from this model.

This was followed by the 907 , which presumably received an engine from Vauxhall Motors .

The last model mentioned is the Super 907 .

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. 929. (English)

Web links

• Allcarindex (English)
• d'Auto (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 929. (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Allcarindex (English, accessed December 6, 2015)
3. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed December 6, 2015)