This history article is about another successful microcar manufacturer of the 1950s and 1960s – Bond Cars or Sharps Commercials as they were originally called. Lawrence Bond formed the company in 1948 in the north of England – a hotbed of microcars with Reliant and Peel amongst other manufacturers up in the same part of the world. Bond formed the company because he wanted to … [Read more...]
3 Wheeled Cars
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the 6 wheeled cars that were developed primarily in the 1970s and I have written about 5 cylinder engines, now, we’re reducing the number further to three: 3 wheeled cars to be precise. Many of the very early cars including some designed by Karl Benz were 3 wheel designs – perhaps these were an extension of the 2 wheeled horse pulled … [Read more...]