Watling Cars

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Watling Cars Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1959
resolution 1961
Seat St Albans
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Watling Cars Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The St Albans company started producing automobiles in 1959. The brand name was Watling . Production ended in 1961. A total of about 70 copies were made. The company also manufactured boats and caravans .

vehicles

The models GT and GT Deluxe were on offer . They looked like a mix of models from TVR , Marcos Cars, and the Jaguar E-Type , the latter not appearing until 1961. The basis was a separate ladder frame, which was available with two different wheelbases. A special feature was the independent suspension. A fiberglass body was mounted on top. On offer were open and closed structures that offered space for two or four people. Four-cylinder engines from Ford of Britain and Morris Motor Company , especially Ford Prefect (E 93 A) , Ford Popular (100 E) , Ford Anglia (105 E) and Morris Minor powered the vehicles.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Watling chapter.
  • George Nicholas 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).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Watling chapter.
  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)
  3. ↑ a b c 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).