25 Facts About Reliant Motors

Reliant Motors Motor Company was a British car manufacturer based in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.

Reliant Motors was a large manufacturing company that mainly produced vehicles for niche markets, such as small three-wheeled vehicles and sports cars.

Approximately half a million Reliant Motors vehicles were produced and sold in at least nine countries.

From this, Reliant Motors became a pioneer in fibreglass design, techniques, and developments.

Reliant Motors produced kitchen worktops, train bodies, and personal watercraft shells from fibreglass.

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Reliant Motors became the second largest British owned car company in the 1970s after the forming of British Leyland, Reliant Motors had five factories and sold vehicles to seven countries.

Reliant Motors was keen that the company did not buy parts that it could make 'in-house'.

Austin sold all the 747 cc engine tooling and manufacture rights to Reliant Motors, allowing them to commence manufacturing the engine.

Reliant Motors was one of the last companies to produce a side-valve engine design, with the production of the Reliant Motors 750 cc engine ending in 1962.

Reliant Motors was so impressed with the design, they sold it in the UK as the Sabre to help Reliant Motors's company image expand beyond a three-wheeled micro-car maker.

Later, Reliant Motors bought a prototype design for the replacement Daimler Dart, which would become the Scimitar Coupe and later the best-selling sporting estate—the Scimitar GTE.

Reliant Motors bought out Bond Cars in 1969 after Bond had gone into liquidation.

Reliant Motors built four-wheeled versions of their three-wheeled stablemates – the first was the Reliant Motors Rebel, which had three-quarters of the rear chassis design of the Regal, but Triumph Herald front suspension and standard Austin Seven steering.

Reliant Motors exported engines they had built for their own vehicles in the UK.

Reliant Motors made a small three-wheeled commercial vehicle called the Reliant Motors TW9, later sold by other companies as the Ant, which was a chassis and cab, onto which a custom rear body was fitted: a road sweeper, a flat back, a van, a milk float and hydraulic lifting rear bed version were common fitments.

Sales doubled as previously most Reliant Motors vehicles were basic with not even the option of metallic paint.

The car used a lot of Reliant Motors's existing parts; basically converting a Regent into a four-wheeled vehicle.

In 1958 Reliant Motors showed this vehicle excessively in the UK to show they could design more than just 3 wheeled vehicles but only showed in LHD form as it was only an overseas model.

Reliant Motors would continue designing vehicles for Autocars into the early 1970s when Autocars started to source parts from Standard-Triumph severing ties with reliant in the process, Autocars would end in the late 1970s and would plan to start a new company selling Reliant Motors Kittens in Israel but this would not happen.

Reliant Motors offered in the 1980s again to redesign the Anadol even presenting a prototype but by this time Otosan believed it could go it alone and redesigned the vehicle itself, this wouldn't end well for Otosan with declining sales and eventually Otosan became a Ford assembly plant for Turkey producing the Ford Escort.

Reliant Motors produced 50 vehicles a week until 2001, when it finished production of its own models to focus on importing French Ligier microcars and motorcycles as well as the Piaggio Ape range of commercial vehicles.

Reliant Motors produced up to two million vehicles over a 65-year history starting in 1935, and sold its cars in nine countries, including the Netherlands, India, and the Middle East.

Since Reliant Motors would be known for building robust fibreglass vehicles, it would diversify into producing fibreglass items other than their own vehicles.

Reliant Motors had many contracts with Ford to build fibreglass high roof tops for their Transit model.

The first Reliant Motors prototype was built by Williams and Thompson in 1934, in the rear garden of Williams' residence, named Bro-Dawel, on Kettlebrook Road.

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