Watford Sports Cars

Watford Sports Cars Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	1959
resolution	1962
Seat	Watford
management	BJ Millar, Ken Hynder, Joe Bound
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Watford Sports Cars Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Previously with Tornado Cars , BJ Millar, Ken Hynder and Joe Bound founded the company in Watford in 1959 and began manufacturing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Watford . Production ended in 1962. A total of about 25 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Cheetah . It was similar to the Tornado Typhoon . The base was a tubular frame. A body made of glass fiber reinforced plastic was mounted on top. There was a choice of an open version and one with a hard top . Four-cylinder engines from Ford of Britain , specifically Ford Eight and Ford Ten , powered the vehicles. The rates were 70 pounds for the chassis and 130 pounds for the body.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Watford chapter.
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. 1726. (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. 272 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed December 12, 2014)
Ford Special Vehicles: Watford (accessed December 20, 2014)
Fairthorpe page on Watford (accessed December 20, 2014)
Prospectus (accessed December 20, 2014)

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 , Watford chapter.
^ ^A ^b 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. 1726. (English)
^ ^A ^b 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. 272 (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 , Watford chapter.

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b 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. 1726. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] A ^b 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. 272 (English).