Townend Engineering

Townend Engineering
legal form
founding	1958
resolution	1962
Seat	United Kingdom
management	Geoff Townend, Peter Townend
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Townend Engineering was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Brothers Geoff and Peter Townend founded the company in 1958 and began producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Townend . Production ended in 1962. A total of about 60 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the 581 . The basis of the vehicles was the chassis of the Ford Eight and Ford Ten . An open two-seater body was mounted on top. A four-cylinder engine powered the vehicle. The kit was priced at £ 108 including doors and lights . A hard top was £ 20 extra.

I.a. The Halifax Panel Beating Company Limited from Halifax offered the kits .

literature

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. 256 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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. 256 (English).
↑ Chris Rees : British Specialist Cars. Postwar low-volume production cars and kit cars . Windrow & Greene, London 1993, ISBN 1-872004-22-9 , pp. 174 (English).
↑ Offered by The Halifax Panel Beating Company Limited (accessed December 20, 2014)

[Kit_Cars-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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. 256 (English).

[British_Specialist_Cars-2] Chris Rees : British Specialist Cars. Postwar low-volume production cars and kit cars . Windrow & Greene, London 1993, ISBN 1-872004-22-9 , pp. 174 (English).

[Halifax-3] Offered by The Halifax Panel Beating Company Limited (accessed December 20, 2014)