Vernon Industries

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Vernon Industries Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1952
resolution 1958
Seat Bidston
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Gordon from 1956
The engine was mounted on the far right.
emblem

Vernon Industries Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Bidston company started producing automobiles in 1952. The designer was Erling Poppe, who previously worked at Sunbeam . The brand names were Vi-Car and from 1954 Gordon . Production ended in 1958. A total of several hundred copies were made.

vehicles

Brand name Vi-Car

Between 1952 and 1953 the company produced disabled vehicles called Vi-Car . The construction was the same as the Gordon, but there was only one headlight at the front. Covering the rear wheels with motorcycle-like fenders was also made simpler.

Brand name Gordon

This was a miniature car with three wheels, with the single wheel in the front. A single-cylinder engine from Villiers Ltd with a displacement of 197 cc was mounted to the right of the driver (right-hand drive) outside the body and drove a rear wheel via a chain. Access to the interior was therefore only possible via a door on the left. The body was made of steel and had a roll top. At around £ 300 new , it was the cheapest car on the UK market at the time.

One vehicle is in the Hammond Microcar Collection in England.

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 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • Walter Drawer: Small Cars International. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01959-6 , p. 181.

Web links

Commons : Vernon Industries  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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