Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 166,746 pages of information and 246,599 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Enfield Automotive

From Graces Guide
1976. Exhibit at Amberley Working Museum.

Enfield Automotive of Cowes, Isle of Wight, a member of the Enfield Group

1969 Announced an electric car, the "465", that would be made in small numbers for test marketing. It was powered by Oldham lead-acid batteries[1]

1976. Before the E8000ECC Enfield Automotive developed an Electric Passenger Vehicle of unacceptable performance according to the Electricity Council with bodies made of fibreglass and ABS plastic. 66 cars made.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times October 31, 1969