Caterham Levante

In Feb 2008, the " Caterham 7 Levante " was announced, featuring a supercharged version the RST-V8, offering over, installed in a modified Caterham chassis, with bespoke bodywork.

In 2012 elements of Caterham Cars moved into a new facility in Leafield where it is expected the new models of cars to be produced in the future will be developed and built.

A new and protracted dispute with the LB & SCR took place between 1855 and 1862 over the Caterham branch line, which was built by an independent company in SER territory but connected to the railway network at the former LB & SCR station at Purley.

In 1899 when the Caterham line was made double-track, a new brick Ticket Office was built on the opposite Platform at road level, and the original building became the Station Master's House.

Caterham United Reformed Church was built by nonconformists in 1863, followed by the Church of St. John the Evangelist in 1881.

It is built along a stretch of the London to Brighton Way Roman road, which comes through the Caterham Gap and continues southward along Tilburstow Hill Road.

The De Dion tube setup was used in factory racers and some of the models offered by Caterham.

The AC Cobra and the Lotus 7 are particularly popular examples, the right to manufacture the Lotus 7 now being owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder Colin Chapman in 1973.

It was with the Lotus 7 in 1957 that things really took off, and indeed Caterham Cars still manufacture a version of that car today – the Caterham 7 ; there have been over 90 different Lotus 7 clones, replicas and derivatives offered to the public by a variety of makers.

Their current model, the Caterham 7 ( or Seven ), is a direct evolution of the Series 3 Lotus Seven designed by Colin Chapman and originally launched in 1983.

The Lotus / Caterham 7 is widely regarded by car enthusiasts and the media as one of the iconic sports cars of the 20th century.

Since 2006 Caterham Cars has been run by an ex-Lotus management team led by Ansar Ali ( CEO ) and Mark Edwards ( COO ).

In the UK, the vehicles can be obtained as kits or entirely assembled by Caterham and registered for the road under SVA ( Single Vehicle Approval ) regulations.

The SP / 300. R is a new track-only model designed by Caterham alongside Lola Cars.

The CSR was launched in 2005 following extensive research and development by Caterham with the objective of creating an improved Seven.

A Caterham JPE ( Jonathan Palmer Evolution ) briefly held the world record for production car 0 – 60 mph times ( at 3. 4 seconds ) until it was bettered by the $ 1M McLaren F1.

From 2012, the F1 team also owned by Tony Fernandes, known as Team Lotus in the 2011 season, will race as Caterham F1 Team.

Caterham Racing is used by the company to act as a feeder team towards developing racing drivers for the F1 team Caterham F1.

JSSL was initially based at three main sites near Bodmin, Caterham and Cambridge, run respectively by the Army, Navy and RAF.

The Kent engine has also been used by other makes such as Morgan, Caterham, and Lotus.

The main areas of disagreement listed were at Hastings railway station, allowing the LC & DR to use its lines to London Victoria railway station, a proposed LB & SCR branch to Bromley, a proposed agreement by the LB & SCR to work the Caterham branch, the new LB & SCR line to Dorking, LB & SCR opposition to the SER attempts at building a line to the West End of London, the LB & SCR agreement to let the LC & DR use its freight facilities at Bricklayers ' Arms, and the perennial problem of the shared main line between Redhill and Croydon.

The station was opened on 6 March 1871, although today's buildings are of a modern design: the platforms are only located on the outer, Slow lines, since the station is only served by London Overground trains between and or, local trains between London Bridge and Caterham and by the London Bridge to London Victoria loop line via Crystal Palace, plus some London Bridge to Guildford and in peak times.

A house party is taking place at Chimneys which has been rented out by the Marquess of Caterham for two years to Sir Oswald Coote, a self-made millionaire and his wife.

Westfield prefers to employ the same glass fibre body method that Lotus has traditionally used for their other models such as the Elise, Esprit, and Elan, rather than the aluminium used by Caterham.

The Duratec is a range of four, five, and six-cylinder gasoline engines produced by the Ford Motor Company, used in Ford, Mazda, Volvo, Caterham, Morgan, Tiger, Ginetta cars and by specialist engine tuner Cosworth.

* Sir Paul Dukes was born in Bridgwater, an alumnus of Caterham School, and went on to be the premier SIS agent in pre-revolution Russia.

Other areas recommended for inclusion that were never part of Greater London included Epsom and Ewell, Caterham and Warlingham, Esher, and Weybridge.

Future mods, planned or in progress if in most cases graphic conversion tools work, include first a 1966 and 1971 CanAm mod. Then, a Rallye mod, 1935, 1937, 1941, 1951 and 1955 Grand Prix mods, 1964 World Sportscar Championship mod, a Lotus Cortina mod, a Caterham mod.

South of London it would provide four trains to Brighton ( one semi-fast, one stopping ) and two trains per hour each to Three Bridges, Horsham, East Grinstead, Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Tunbridge Wells, Ashford International, Maidstone East, Sevenoaks and Bellingham.

It carried on through the North Downs near Caterham to Hassocks, just north of the South Downs.

Examples include the Caterham 7, Mazda MX-5, and the Chevrolet Corvette.

Waite joined the Grenadier Guards at Caterham Barracks, but an allergy to a dye in the uniform obliged him to depart after a few months.

In the 1980s, the engine saw its final incarnations, the BDR, used in the road-going version of the Caterham, and the 1. 8-litre BDT, which powered the never-raced Escort RS1700T, and the more competitive Ford RS200, which was created for Group B rallying.

The rights to the Seven were sold in 1973 to Caterham Cars, who continue to produce it today.

Southern operates passenger services from London Bridge and London Victoria to Beckenham Junction, Epsom Downs, East Grinstead, Uckfield, Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Horsham, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne and Ore.

Caterham Cars is a manufacturer of specialist lightweight Sports Cars based in Caterham, Surrey, UK and part of the UK motor industry.

On 27 April 2011, Team Lotus owner Tony Fernandes announced that his team had purchased Caterham.

Caterham Cars had been a major Lotus 7 dealer during the 1960s, and its founder, Graham Nearn, purchased the rights to continue manufacture of the Seven design from Chapman in 1973, after Lotus announced its intention to discontinue the model.

Caterham initially restarted manufacture of the Lotus Seven Series 4 ; however, when this proved unpopular, production switched to a Series 3 model in 1974.

In June 2012 Ansar Ali announced he was to leave Caterham Cars and Graham Mcdonald ( the company's former CFO ) became the new CEO.

As well as a lightweight chassis and bodywork, Caterham Sevens achieve their very low mass through their lack of comfort and safety oriented features such as a fixed roof, doors, radio, air-conditioning, airbags, traction / stability control, ABS, satellite navigation or cruise control.