Tripos R&D

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Tripos R&D
legal form
founding 1984
resolution 1992
Seat London
management
  • Ray tree
  • Rodney Gordon
  • Martin Bunting
  • Peter Brow
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Tripos R&D was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ray Baum, Rodney Gordon, Martin Bunting and Peter Brow founded the company in London in 1984 . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Tripos . Production ended in 1992. Autotrak (Cobretti) tried to continue production in 1992. A total of six copies were made.

vehicles

Laurie Abbott had made a prototype as a one -off. An Alfa Romeo engine powered the two-seater roadster .

Bob Egginton redesigned the model for series production. The model name was R 81 . A spaceframe tubular frame formed the basis. The engines now came from Ford . The strikingly round body was made of fiberglass . The vehicle is described as a kind of modern Lotus Seven .

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 , p. 1611. (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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1611. (English)
  2. ↑ 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).