Triking Sports Cars

Triking Cyclecars (1979–2009) ; Triking Sports Cars Limited (since 2009)
legal form	Limited
founding	1978
Seat	Hingham
management	Alan Layzell
Branch	Automobile manufacturer
Website	www.trikingsportscars.co.uk

Triking tricycle

Side view

Triking Sports Cars Limited , previously Triking Cyclecars , is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Anthony Divey, who previously for Lotus Cars has worked, founded in 1978, the company Triking cyclecars in Marlingford in the county of Norfolk . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name is Triking . In 1989, Alan Layzell joined the company. In 1992 the hundredth vehicle was ready. Alan Layzell took over the company in 2009, renamed it Triking Sports Cars and moved to Hingham , also in Norfolk. A total of around 187 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

The only model is a tricycle with a rear single wheel. It is considered a modern take on Morgan's tricycle . A V2 engine from Moto Guzzi is mounted in the front of the vehicle and drives the rear wheel via a cardan shaft . The range includes engines with 844 cm³ displacement and a choice of 68 HP or 85 HP as well as an engine with 950 cm³ displacement and 71 HP output.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Triking.
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 , p. 1610. (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. 259 (English).

Web links

Commons : Triking Sports Cars - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Company website (accessed January 12, 2015)
Allcarindex (accessed January 6, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Triking.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e 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 , p. 1610. (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. 259 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Triking.

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e 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 , p. 1610. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] 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. 259 (English).