About 40 years ago I founded “The Burlington Motor Company Limited” in a railway arch in Leamington Spa, England. We designed and manufactured a 1930’s style sports car body that we sold to customers worldwide. It was called the “Burlington SS” and was sold as a kit of parts.
About a year later I
came up with the idea of designing a car body that could be built
entirely from a set of low cost plans, thus eliminating the need
for enthusiasts to purchase a kit of parts.
The Burlington Arrow was born.
The
plans had not been available for many years, but an upsurge of interest
in Burlington products made me decide to resurrect the idea, and place
the plans on a CD Rom. Because there is a vast amount of space on a CD,
I’ve included other plans that are similar. As well as the Arrow plans,
there are plans to enable you to build your own chassis, and a World War
2 utility type vehicle.
All the plans are in
.jpg format scanned from the original paper masters that were first
drawn up by myself many years ago. They are all indexed and some
comments are made concerning “How I would have changed things if I were
doing it all again today.”
Because the Arrow was
designed so long ago it is not possible to just build a car exactly to
the instructions given.
The car needs to pass
an “IVA” test in order to get it legally on the road.
I believe that people
have modified things in order to get an IVA certificate for an Arrow,
but please be aware that I cannot give any advice on how to do it. There
are several handbooks on the net that detail what the requirements are
for the IVA test.
They range from
simple explanations of what you need to the official Government IVA
manual.
Things like making
the steering column collapse in the event of a crash, incorporate a dual
circuit brakes system, have no sharp edges any where, and several more
things. All of which are achievable.
What I have found
over the past few years I’ve been supplying the CD is that the majority
of customers are either people who have just bought a second hand Arrow
or people who want to build a unique self made car and need some sort of
starting point.
Many self-builders just need an idea to get them going.
The Arrow plans can
provide this.
More detailed
descriptions of the plans, can be found below.
