New Zealand (KZ 7) "Kiwi Magic" Runner-up in 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup, and the first 12 Metre to be made from fibreglass.
However cost constraints and the recent merger with Leyland/Triumph ment all development was shelved on the project, as it would already be in a crowded sector within the company.A fibreglass full size mock-up is on display at the BMIHTGaydon, Warwickshire.
Under pressure from the New Zealand government, a sophisticated fibreglass production unit was developed in Glenfield, Auckland to meet the new health and safety regulations for fiberglass construction.
The cut protection is provided high performance materials such as Para aramid (Twaron, Kevlar), HPPE (High Performance Poly Ethylene, Dynema, Spectra), special PVA yarns (SupraBlock) or steelfibre and fibreglass yarns.
It had a fibreglass body, four-wheel Girling disc brakes, and a 2.5-litre Hemi-head V8 engine designed by Edward Turner.
They went on to build customer Formula Vee racing cars and various successful one-off sports cars, including a twin-engined, fibreglass-bodied Volkswagen Beetle, as well as maintaining a car and racing accessories business.
It is designed by Steve Harper to be essentially similar in appearance to the Scorpion III, but with an extra wheel and slightly larger dimensions the Scorpion IV is an open sports car constructed from a fibreglass covered steel space frame chassis.
Killarney Plastics started off from a small lane in Killarney manufacturing composite and Fibreglass (GRP) products which were still relatively new to the Irish market.
For a time (September 2009 to prior to August 2012), the tower also sported a 24 metre, eight storey high, fibreglass soccer ball, for the 2010 World Cup.
In 1954 a French car dealer in Hollywood found itself with a number of complete Panhard chassis and engines and sold them to racer Bill Devin, who quickly developed a fibreglass roadster body and marketed them as Devin-Panhards.
In order to educate people about extinct forms of life, the Geological Survey of India installed life–size fibreglass models of Rajasaurus and Titanosaurus at their Lucknow regional office.
Formed in 2008 the unit is tasked with countering light fibreglass attack boats used by the Sea Tigers in the coastal waters of Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
The company’s existing expertise in producing fibreglass vehicle bodies emabled the rapid development of a suitable frame and body to be mounted on the chassis of a Renault 4 with which, as with the “VUL” of 1964, provided the mechanical elements for the car.
The success of the Alpine programme including an encouraging performance at Le Mans led Commer to entrust Harrington with the PSV conversion of the 1500 van, which included a complete one piece fibreglass roof panel of clerestory outline.
MPP-B Wierzba mine, a fibreglass Polish minimum metal anti-tank blast mine