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4 unusual facts about Reliant Scimitar


Harold Radford

Harold Radford (Coachbuilders) were to build the Cortina-Ogle GT which was presented at the 1963 Earls Court Motor Show by Stirling Moss.

Reliant Scimitar

While at the 1962 Motorshow, he saw a car called an OGLE SX250: it had been designed by David Ogle (of David Ogle Associates, later known as Ogle Design) and it was based on the Daimler Dart SP250 chassis and running gear.

Princess Anne was given a manual overdrive SE5 as a joint 20th birthday present and Christmas present in November 1970 by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

The fifth Middlebridge Scimitar built was delivered to HRH The Princess Anne.


Tom Karen

He oversaw design of the Bush Radio TR130 radio, the Raleigh Chopper, the Bond Bug, the Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Anadol A1 (FW5), an award-winning series of truck cabs for Leyland, and the Marble Run.


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