Description
Author: Peter Dron, Hardbound, 144 Pages, ISBN: 9781845847630, First Published, 2015
- a fitting tribute to a rare automotive comeback !
In the early years of the 21st century, the Morgan Motor Company decided to return to the configuration of its origins, with a new 3 Wheeler. One reason for this decision was that it could no longer sell its four-wheelers in the USA, due to the costs of meeting increasingly restrictive legislation on emissions and accident safety becoming prohibitive for a small manufacturer.
The 3 Wheeler,classed as a motorcycle, bypassed these complex requirements.By coincidence, an American three-wheeler, the Liberty ACE (itself a modernised recreation of the V-Twin Morgan Super Sports of the 1930s) was selected as
the starting point.
Morgan then designed and engineered the new model in an astonishingly short period of time.The management thought it might sell a few hundred3 Wheelers; however, orders flooded in after its launch at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, leading to considerable complications.
This is the story of how all of this happened, and how an eccentric sports car with an American engine and a Japanese gearbox is, nevertheless, quintessentially English.
