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Article: Founder of TVR sports car firm ; Trevor Wilkinson, the founder of TVR, the small British carmaker known for nimble little sports cars that early owners often assembled from a kit, has died aged 85.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2008
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Trevor Wilkinson, the founder of TVR, the small British carmaker
known for nimble little sports cars that early owners often
assembled from a kit, has died aged 85.
The soft-spoken Mr Wilkinson built his first car in 1947 as a
race special and incorporated TVR Engineering (later simply TVR) the
next year.
The company name was a shortened version of his first name. In
later years, the company was known for producing extroverted cars
with outlandish names like Sagaris (a Persian-era battle-axe) and
Cerbera (a derivative of Cerberus, the three-headed hound of hell).
Nothing resembling regular production began until the late 1950s,
by which time Mr Wilkinson had come up with the formula that ...