We wouldn’t be fair if we didn’t share with you the world’s smallest passenger car: the Peel Trident. The Peel Engineering company provided the microcar world with some stimulating ideas, still discussed decades later.
Originally producing motorcycle fairings and boat hulls it also produced car body kits in the 1950’s. The local where the microcars werer built was the Isle of Man, located between England and Ireland.
1964 saw the introduction of a further development of the P-50, called the Peel Trident. This was essentially the same chassis but with a slightly larger futuristic 2-seater body shell, topped by a large clear plastic dome which lifted for entry. Perhaps 45 were built, the last six of which were fitted with the 98cc motor with automatic belt transmission out of the Triumph Tina scooter.
1966 Peel Trident This car is one of these, purchased from the designer, still living on the IoM, and displayed at a German museum for some years. Peel offered a 12 volt electric motor version with a running radius of 65 km in 1966, and went on to build bodies for Minis.
We wish one of them…what about you?
