Archive for January 2, 2013

News : Manganese Bronze to be bought by Geely?

Geely Group's version of the iconic London Taxi - the Shanghai Englon TX4.

Following months of trouble, Manganese Bronze, the company that builds the TX4 London Black cab, went into administration in October – and Chinese carmaker Geely is interested in buying the company as a going concern from the administrators. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) the administrators called in to try and find a buyer for Manganese Bronze on 12 [...]

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Concepts and prototypes : Heuliez Chrysler 180 Break

Heuliez-Chrysler-180

Keith Adams, Picture: Andrew Elphick The French coachbuilder, Heuliez, products has slipped its way into these pages before. Who could forget the inappropriately (for Anglophones) named Talbot Wind, a cut-price funky alternative to the Matra-Rancho? By the time this sketch of the 180 Break was penned in the early 1970s, the company was already in [...]

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From the archives : New car news 1-7 January

Workmen digging to free a train which was trapped in deep drifts on Dava Moor between Forres and Grantown on Spey in Scotland.

Compiled by Keith Adams, taken from AROnline‘s vast archive 50 years ago this week: Looks like snow was stopping play! The Times, 2 January 1963: On a day of snow showers and freezing rain. supplies of car bodies to motor manufacturers in the Midlands were again seriously reduced. The Pressed Steel Company said today that [...]

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