24 Facts About Reliant

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

Reliant 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 vehicles were produced and sold in at least nine countries.

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

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

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

Reliant 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, allowing them to commence manufacturing the engine.

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

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

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

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

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

Reliant made a small three-wheeled commercial vehicle called the Reliant 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 vehicles were basic with not even the option of metallic paint.

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

In 1958 Reliant 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 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 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 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 would be known for building robust fibreglass vehicles, it would diversify into producing fibreglass items other than their own vehicles.

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

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