TVR
In 1946 TVR was founded by Trevor Wilkinson, co-founder Jack Pickard and owned by Nikolay Smolensky, Peter Wheeler and Martin Lilley. The Headquarters of TVR IS located in Blackpool, England .TVR is basically an independent British manufacturer of sports cars which is based in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire.
The company focuses on manufacture of lightweight sports cars having powerful engines and it was the third-largest specialised sports car manufacturer in the world which offers a diverse range of coupés and convertibles. TVR have two branches one is TVR Engineering which just manufactures sports cars and grand tourers and the TVR Power that is their powertrain division.
Trevor Wilkinson was born on 14 May 1923 in Blackpool and left school at age of 14 with an idea to start an engineering apprenticeship at a local garage nearby. In 1946 he bought a wheelwright’s business in Blackpool and in 1947 he renamed it Trevcar Motors. He started of this with the purpose of selling and repairing the cars and light engineering.
In 1947, Trevor Wilkinson built his first car which had a special two-seater body later he with his partner Jack Pickard then started a separate company that was TVR Engineering, with a name derived from Wilkinson’s initial name – TreVoR.
From 1947-1965 founder of the company was Trevor Wilkinson but in 1962 he left. From 1965-1981 the company was taken care by Martin Lilley but later on from1981-2004 it was handed over to Peter Wheeler and lastly from 2004 till present, Nikolay Smolensky is successfully handling the company .
On 22 February 2007 it was exposed that Nikolay Smolensky is once again the owner of the company after being the highest bidder and on 28 February 2007 that was not even a week after reacquiring TVR, he reportedly announced his plans to sell the company to Adam Burdette and Jean Michel Santacreu they intended to export TVRs to the market of United States. But on 8 October 2007 it was noticed that Smolensky was still in control of the company and was in a hope to restart the production with a ultimate target of 2,000 cars which were to be sold in 2008. On 11 July 2008 it was reported to the sources that TVR announced a relaunch of the Sagaris with a new name as Sagaris 2, at its new centre near Wesham in Lancashire.
There are many models of TVR and some of them are TVR jomar, TVR Grantura I, TVR Grantura II, TVR Grantura IIa, TVR Grantura III,TVR Grantura 1800s, TVR Griffith 200, TVR Griffith 400, TVR Grantura IV 1800S, TVR Tuscan V8, TVR Tuscan, TVR Vixen, TVR Vixen S2,TVR Vixen S3, TVR Vixen 1300, TVR Vixen 2500, TVR Vixen S4, TVR 1600, TVR 2500 and the list is long but all of them are quite popular in market and latest in TVR Sagaris produced in the year 2006.
- Nitika Malhotra
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