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Some W&P Literary Sources

Williams & Pritchard UK and Australia brochures and publicity material from 1961 - 1970

"The Body Beautiful - A Visit to Williams & Pritchard" (not credited, introductory article with working photos), Cars and Car Conversions Magazine April 1966 Vol 2 No 4

Williams & Pritchard regular Sebring GT advertisements from 1967 - 1970 in Motorsport Magazine and Cars and Car Conversions Magazine 1967 - 1973

"Glassfibre Story" by Richard Hudson-Evans (interview with Len Pritchard on the Sebring GT range), Cars and Car Conversions Magazine August 1969 Vol 5 No 8

"The Coachbuilders Williams & Pritchard - Britain's Panelwork Partners" by Mike Lawrence (substantial article on W&P with interview with Len Pritchard), Classic and Sports Car Magazine, March 1989

"Body Builders" by Mike Rogers (detailed interview with Len Pritchard), Classic Cars Magazine, May 1992

"Lotus, The Early Years" by Peter Ross, pub. Coterie Press 2004

"Flying on Four Wheels - Frank Costin and his Car Designs" by Dennis E Ortenburger, pub. Frank Stephens Ltd 1986 (Speedwell Streamliner Sprite, Vanwall, Knobbly Listers, Costin Nathan, Amigo)

"Spritely Years" by John Sprinzel and Tom Coulthard, pub. Haynes 1994 and John Sprinzel Ltd 2008 (in particular on Sebring Sprites and SLR Morgans)

"Morgan Maverick" by Chris Lawrence, pub. Douglas Loverage Publications 2008 (SLR's and Deep Sanderson)

"Jaguar D type & XKSS" by Graham Robson, pub. Osprey 1983

"Specialist British Sports / Racing Cars of the Fifties & Sixties" by Anthony Pritchard, pub Osprey 1986

"Powered by Jaguar - Cooper, HWN, Lister & Tojeiro sports-racing cars" by Doug Nye, pub MRP publishing 1980, 2005

"Cooper Cars" by Doug Nye, pub Osprey / Motorbooks International 1983, 2003 (RUM 2)

"Racing Cars of the World", by Peter Roberts pub Hippo Books / Longacre Press, 1962

Racing Car Show official guidebooks 1960 - 1971, BARC

"Rediscovering the Williams & Pritchard Sebring GT Spridget" by Tim Saunders, MG Car Club Safety Fast Magazine, August 2007 Vol 52 No 8

"Not What It Seems ... the tale of lost Sebring-bodied Sprite 4204 MV" by Tim Saunders, Midget and Sprite Club MASCOT Magazine October 2008 No. 295

"Deep Green Dream Machines" by Mike McCarthy, Motor Magazine, May 1975 (Lynx and Wingfield D-Types)

"Lost Prophet" by Martin Buckley, interview with Ted Martin in Clasic and Sportscar Magazine Jan 2009 (Monica)

"How Fast Are Sprites?" by Martyn Watkins, Autosport Magazine, April 22 1960 (Speedwell Streamliner Sprite)

"132 mph Sprite" by Cyril Posthumus, MG Car Club Safety Fast Magazine June 1960 (Speedwell Streamliner Sprite)

"The Speedwell Sprite" by John Sprinzel, Midget and Sprite Club MASCOT Magazine March 2009 No.300

"Graham Hill's Flying Machine", York Evening Press Drive Magazine, 20th August 1993 (Speedwell Streamliner)

"Specials - Sprinzel Midget GT" by P.W.B. (initials only on article), MG Car Club Safety Fast Magazine April 1966

'I Became A Wall of Death Hero' (tales from Chris Lawrence) by Richard Heseltine, Classic Cars Magazine July 2009 (Monica, Deep Sanderson, SLRs)

"Moss Green! Testing Stirling's Racing Elan" SMART Elan roadtest, not credited, Small Car Magazine March 1965

"Group 6 Nomad - Ford Motor Racing Track Test" by John Blunsden, Motor Racing Magazine November 1967

"Mark Konig and Bob Curl, the men behind the Nomad sports car" by Jeff Hutchinson, Autosport December 1969

Mark Konig's race log for the Nomad Mk I

"Gallant Warrior, the Bristol Warrior story" by Bob Campbell, Vintage Motorsport Magazine (Aus), March/April 2005

"Was the first barchetta British?" by James Elliott, road test of "Number One", Classic & Sports Car October 2009

"The first and last of the few" by Dale Drinnon, road test of SLR 1, Octane Magazine November 2009

"Fun-sized Fastback" by Richard Hesseltine, about the Ian Walker Racing Lotus Elan road car, Motorsport Magazine, February 2010

nb: please note that this list does not include the wealth of material available relating to Lotus generally, which is fully documented on other websites

Other Sources and Credits

Correspondence and conversations with Pritchard family members, and kind access to their private archives of company material

Correspondence with Steve Foster, owner of Fibresports

Correspondence and conversations with Tom Coulthard, archivist of the Sebring Sprite Register, relaying discussions with Len Pritchard about the Sebring GT range and on Sebring Sprites

Correspondence with Geoffrey Humm, a former neighbour and friend of Len Pritchard

Correspondence and conversations with Richard and Oliver Penney, owners of "Number One", who have also met with Len Pritchard

W&P Archive material kindly supplied by: the Pritchard family; Ray English of Marque One Magazine; John Jenkins, owner of LUE 620E; Gary Lazarus of the Midget and Sprite Club; Reinald Kirchner; Albert Voogd; Russ Filby of the Turner Register

Thanks to the Pritchard family, Anita Lachowicz, Sarah & Tim Saunders, Peter Ross of the Historic Lotus Register, Chris Lawrence of LawrenceTune (and Guy Loverage his publisher), Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird (with his extensive historic archive) and various car owners for use of their photographs

Thanks to Laurent Derancourt, Gary Lazarus, Celt Rowlands, Andrew Noakes and Tom Coulthard for input on Ashley

Thanks to Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird, Tom Coulthard, John Baggott and Mark Boldry for input on Speedwell

Thanks to Gary Lazarus for input on StarSprite, Peasmarsh and Alexander Sprite fronts

Thanks to Dave O'Neill and Carl Bintcliffe for input on A G Thorpe spridget fronts

Thanks to Gryf Ketcherside and Gary Lazarus for input on Kellison Sprite fronts

Thanks to Nick Bastedo for input on AMCO hardtops

Thanks to John Shepherdson of the Lenham Spridget Register for input on the Omnibob hardtop

Thanks to Jon Cronin for input on Fibrepair / Sprinzel / SAH hardtops and copies of period articles

Thanks to John Shepherdson of the Lenham Spridget Register, Denis Best and Ray English for input on Lenham

Thanks to Steven Ford, John Sprinzel and Jonathan Whitehouse-Bird for input on the Sprinzel Midget GT

Thanks to Peter Ross, Charles Help, Jack Taylor, David Morgan and other members of the Historic Lotus Register for input on Lotus

Thanks to Russ and Terry Filby of the Turner Register for material on the Alexander Turner GT Coupe

Thanks to Cees De Haan for input on Jaguar D-type replicas, correspondence with Bryan Wingfield

Thanks to John Sprinzel, Chris Lawrence, Guy Loverage, Neil Dangerfield, Adrian Van der Kroft, and Kurt Suelflohn for input on SLR's

Thanks to Chris Lawrence and Guy Loverage for input and images on Deep Sanderson and Monica projects

Thanks to Mark Forster of Mk1 Performance Conversions for Deep Sanderson brochure material

Thanks to Don Stark for input on the Saturn GT

Thanks to David Kelsey for information on the Kelsey GT

Thanks to Wolfgang Wegener and Bob Curl for input on the Nomad Mk I

Thanks to Jack Perkins, Bob Campbell and Brett Boughton for input on the Warrior Bristol

Thanks to Ken Yankey and the Swallow Doretti website for input on the Kirwan-Taylor Swallow Doretti

Graphic design work for W&P Register logo and stickers generously produced by Carlo La Duca

Website design by Tim Saunders

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