Berkeley Cars were made in Biggleswade in the 1950's. They were an offshoot of Berkeley Caravans who were pioneers in the use of GRP.
Berkeley produced a range of very small GRP bodies sports cars all featuring front wheel drive and using a variety of motorcycle engines bothe 2-stroke and 4-stroke ranging from 322cc to 700cc.
Sports cars were produced in both 4 wheel and 3 wheel formats.
They attempted to develop a bigger sports car, the 'Bandit', using Ford engines, but only a couple of prototypes were produced before the company ceased trading in 1960.
