Kieft Cars
Industry | Formula 3 cars |
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Founder | Cyril Kieft |
Headquarters | , UK |
Kieft Cars, founded by Cyril Kieft, was a British car company that built Formula Three racing cars and some road going sports cars in a factory in Derry St, Wolverhampton.[1]
History
A new design by Gordon Bedson, who had joined the company from the aircraft industry, was produced in time for the 1951 Whit Monday Meeting at Goodwood where it won the Formula Three event driven by Moss. Don Parker was employed as works driver and won the British Formula Three Championship in 1952 and 1953.[1]
Between 1953 and 1954, Kieft designed a
In 1954, Kieft started to make a two-seater sports car which could also be used as a road car. Using a Coventry Climax FWA engine, all independent suspension using transverse leaf springs at the rear and a lightweight glass fibre body the car was really a racing car and at £1560 it is doubtful if any were bought just as road cars.[1]
The company was losing money and at the end of 1954 Kieft sold the company to racing driver Berwyn Baxter.
Kieft Cars left Wolverhampton in 1956 and moved to nearby Birmingham, where they concentrated on preparing and tuning other makes of cars. There were plans for a return to making Kieft cars but these failed to materialise. The company was sold again in 1960 and changed its name to Burmans.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-525-08351-0
- ^ "Stirling Moss's manager Ken Gregory dies". autosport.com. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Kieft GP car makes debut". Motor Sport. November 2002. p. 7. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
Sources
- G.N. Georgano"Adams-Farwell", The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885-1968. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1974, p. 27.
- ISBN 0-525-08351-0