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 The Bandit was launched at the 1960 Motor show in an attempt to capture the
traditional sports car market. It was designed by John Tojeiro and two prototype cars were made using fairly standard car
components and running gear from the Ford Anglia 105E . The car had a
combination steel and aluminium chassis with the usual Berkeley fibreglass
body. The drive was to the rear wheels, unusual for a Berkeley, and
suspension at the rear was through a swing axle layout with coil-over-shock
absorbers acting directly on the rear hubs. This was achieved by
modifying the Ford rear axle to provide two short drive shafts connecting
through a pair of universal joints giving full movement of the wheels whilst
the differential could be held stationary. The car had disk brakes at
the front and drums at the back.Several road tests of the cars gave good accounts of performance and road holding but by this time the company was failing and the car never went into production. The company went officially bankrupt in February 1961 and was wound up.
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