Buckland Cars

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Buckland Cars
Industry Automobiles
Founded1988
FounderDick Buckland
Defunct1999
Headquarters Llanwern near Newport, Gwent

Buckland Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles. [1] [2]

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Company history

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Buckland B3

Dick Buckland developed an automobile and presented it at a kit car show in Stoneleigh in 1985. The production and marketing of automobiles and kits was initially carried out together with Laurie Weeks through the Light Car & Cycle Restoration Company. In 1988 he founded Buckland Cars in his home town of Llanwern near Newport in the Welsh county of Gwent. The brand name was Buckland. Production ended in 1999 when Dick Buckland fell ill. A total of twelve copies were made. [3]

Penguin Speed ​​Shop from Sarn in Flintshire, led by John Wilcox, has continued production since 2011, retaining the brand name.

Vehicles

The only model was the B 3. It was a tricycle with a single rear wheel. The basis was a tubular frame. An open two-seater body made of fiberglass was mounted on it. A four-cylinder engine from Ford with a displacement of 1300 cm3 and an output of 90 to 100hp was located at the front of the vehicle and drove the rear wheel via a chain.

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References

  1. Linz, Harald H; Schrader, Halwart (2008). Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie[The International Automotive Encyclopedia] (in German). Munich: United Soft Media Verlag. ISBN   978-3-8032-9876-8.
  2. Georgano, George Nick (2001). The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A-F. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 208. ISBN   1-57958-293-1.
  3. Hole, Steve (2012). A-Z of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949. Sparkford: Haynes Publishing. p. 45. ISBN   978-1-84425-677-8.