1947 Beaumont electric car prototype from Lytham St Annes, UK

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this 1947 prototype?

EDIT:

now that this one is solved I would really love to know more about this electric prototype.

The German text on the back of this press photo speaks of the
"Beaumont-Werke" (Beaumont - Works) from Lytham St Annes.

Here is my hopefully correct translation of the german text:

The recently initiated fuel rationing that has been met with strong disapproval by the car owners in some cases even led to public protests.

Mr. Beaumont thought he has found a way out of this rationing by constructing an electrically driven car.
It will be launched for a price of 120 pound sterling by the Beaumont works of Lytham St Annes.
The two-seater car is said to be capable of driving 60km with a fully-charged battery and it could reach a top speed of 40km/h.
Our photo shows a model of this new British electric car.
10.December 1947

Unfortunately I did not find ANY traces of that company.

Who knows more?

[grobmotorix]

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[kwgibbs]

was this interesting car a british prototype of a well-known brand?

[grobmotorix]

was this interesting car a british prototype of a well-known brand?

British - yes

well-known brand - no...

[kwgibbs]

was there any relation to the Lilliput sports roadster? somehow it reminds me of it.

[grobmotorix]

Lilliput

[richard cuyler]

1940s and rear-engined?

[kwgibbs]

was the builder of this car quite an obscure person?

[grobmotorix]

1940´s, yes.

My source was a press photo and it was released 1947.

The car was built and presented by a company in the UK.

[kwgibbs]

the co. that presented this car,did they build other products as well as cars?

[grobmotorix]

I am quite sure yes.

My source talks of the producing company as the XXX-Works...

Only that I can´t find out too much about them or what they produced before or after they showed this prototype.

[Allan L]

I feel I should know this but as I don't I'm not sure where to start.
1947 was a good year for cars that had been dreamed up by people on fire-watch duty during the war, such as the Healey. Another class involved aeroplane companies looking for diversification after the main customer (the RAF) had a reduced need for their normal product (e.g. Bristol). Can't have been one of those as their other products were hardly obscure.

[grobmotorix]

This is why I can´t help too much.

The only thing I can reveal is:

it was built in Lancashire.

[kwgibbs]

was it named after the builder?

[grobmotorix]

No.

In fact it was named after the works´name, which sound quite nice / French... 

[kwgibbs]

was it an industrial type works?

[grobmotorix]

The problem I have is that the press photo was released in Germany in 1947, so it has a German press text on its rear side.
Unfortunate it just says it was built in the "XXXXXXXX-Werke".

That´s all - I do not have an exact company name like -Works or -Ltd., so I was not ablr to find it...

[grobmotorix]

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[pnegyesi]

do we need to find a probably misspelled name ?

[grobmotorix]

I do not think so.

Let´s help massively - I want this to be solved as I want to get any more information about this one...

The first part of the name stands for "attractive" or "nice" in French.

[nicanary]

Beauchamp?

[grobmotorix]

Beau is correct

Beauchamp

[pnegyesi]

Beaulieu?

[nicanary]

Beaufort?

[Oguerrerob]

Beaucoup?