Tiger Racing

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Tiger Racing Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1989
Seat Wisbech
management Jim Dudley
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.tigerracing.com

tiger
ERA 30

Tiger Racing Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1989 Jim Dudley founded the company in London district of Plumstead and began the production of automobiles. The brand name is Tiger . From 1999 the company headquarters were in Thorney and currently in Wisbech . The brand name ERA has also been used since 2003 .

vehicles

The company manufactures kit cars .

Brand name Tiger

Many models are similar to the Lotus Seven . A tubular frame forms the basis. Initially, a four-cylinder engine from the VW Golf powered the vehicles. Later, a built-in engine from the Ford Sierra was also available, but also a V8 engine .

Moreover emerged replicas of the Jaguar D-Type and Ferrari 250 LM and a modern interpretation of the Lotus Elan .

Brand name ERA

This brand name is a reference to the former British racing and sports car manufacturer English Racing Automobiles . Single-seaters have been manufactured since 2003 and two-seaters since 2005. The ERA 30 is a replica of the Lotus 23 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • 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 . (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 .

Web links

Commons : Tiger Racing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.