Fairthorpe Ltd. was founded in 1954 by Air Vice Marshall Donald Bennett at Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire. The first cars were lightweight sportscars powered by motorcycle engine with glass fibre bodies called the Atom and the Atomata. In 1956 a new larger two seat Sports Car appeared, the Electron powered by a Coventry Climax engine, a lower priced version powered by a Triumph Spitfire engine followed and with 700 cars built was the companies mainstay until 1973. Around 20 of the closed version the Electrina were also built. Small numbers of other models were built at this time, in 1961 the company moved to premises at Gerrards Cross and in 1964 to Denham both still within Buckinghamshire. In 1967 David Bennetts son, Torix joined the company and there followed a new car the TX-GT which was based on the Triumph GT6 and the TX Tripper which was produced by a company registered to Torix Bennett, Technical Exponents) working out of the same premises, but by this time the market for hand built small production sports cars had decline. The last cars were built around 1976, both companies are still listed but are inactive.
Shot at the Silverstone Classic 25.07.2010 Ref 57-185
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