Tickford

Tickford is an automobile coachbuilding and tuning company famous for the 140mph Tickford Turbo Capri.

The company had small coachbuilding origins in the 1820s under the name of Salmons and Son who were based at Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell. With the advent of the internal combustion engine, the company progressed into developing coachbuilt cars as early as 1898 and prospered. In 1925 they announced the Tickford "All Weather" saloon which was actually a convertible with the hood mechanism operated by inserting and turning a handle. By the late 1930s 450 people were employed producing 30 car bodies a week. In 1942 the company became simply known by the name of "Tickford", and in 1955 was bought by David Brown, Aston Martin's owner. He moved Aston Martin onto the site at Tickford Street where it still remains today and let the Tickford name disappear between the late 1950s and 1981.

In 1981 the company was re-founded with engineering and tuning added to its coachbuilder roots allowing it to develop the 140 mph Ford Capri. After the Capri, Tickford worked with among others, MG to create the Maestro Turbo and Ford to create the Sierra Cosworth RS500 and the road version of the RS200.

The hood on the Jaguar XJS convertible was designed by Tickford. These cars were originally converted by Tickford themselves, but it was so successful that Jaguar setup a production line to cope with demand.

Tickford Vehicle Engineering Pty Ltd (TVE) was set up in Australia in 1991 to be the high performance car division of Ford Australia. TVE is best known for engineering the Ford Falcon XR6 and XR8 models, and they also released a range of higher performance "T-Series" performance cars based on the Falcon in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2001 TVE was acquired by Prodrive, the British motor sport company, and in 2002 was rebranded Ford Performance Vehicles

Most recently Tickford have set up a production line in Daventry to convert Ford's Puma into the Ford Puma Racing (limited edition of 500 cars).

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