Harbron (Loxton laminates)
Automotive manufacturer of Bridport, Dorset; United Kingdom From 1986 to 1988.
Loxton Laminates was a British manufacturer of kit type automobiles from Bridport , Dorset in the 1980s.The brand names were Harbron and Brit .
History
Bill Harbron founded the company in Bridport, Dorset , in 1986 . He started producing automobiles and kits with fiberglass body help from boat-building specialist’s, Loxton Laminates. but by 1988 ended production. In total, only about 14 copies were made.
Under the brand name Harbron The model was the special a lotus 7 type car. The base was a spaceframe frame made of steel tubes. Then an open two-seater body was mounted with a more powerfull twin-cam four-cylinder engine from Fiat . A kit cost £1500 pounds and about twelve copies made. With the brand name Brit was a 2 + 2 model and was a modification of the Harbron Special . The open body offered space for 2 + 2 persons. The four-cylinder pinto engine came from the Ford Cortina . The market success was low with only two copies were made until 1988.