Siva

Neville Trickett has been one of the very few British designers to remain consistently active over three decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s.
He formed Neville Trickett (Design) Ltd in 1967 to design a succession of bizarre vehicles.
Mike Saunders, who ran a firm called Siva Engineering, approached Tricket with a plan for creating an Edwardian-style glassfibre body on a Ford Popular E93A chassis.

Launched in 1969, the Siva Edwardian involved Trickett to perhaps a grater extent than he had intended: he not only designed it, but manufactured it, too. Sold as a kit for just 125 pounds, or complete for 355 pounds, its humour was not lost on the buying public. Called the Edwardian Roadster, the two-seater car was quickly followed by the four-seater Tourer. By 1974 a total of 105 Edwardians had been sold. 80 of them were tourers - an achievement at least partly attributable to the fact that Jon Pertwee had driven one in the popular BBC television series, Dr. Who.

Siva after numerous other models went under in 1976.

Siva Registry

At last, in May, 2004 I got wind of a Siva Registry which so many people asked for. David Powell sent me a note saying he owns three, one of which was built in 1969. He knows about 34 cars.
"I have quite a lot of information, photos', pricelists, brochures, etc, which I am putting on disc, and will be pleased to supply to other SIVA enthusiasts" - mentioned David (due to spam alert the e-mail address has been tweaked a bit).

David's first kit

The Dr. Who car is in the exhibition at Llangollen

David's Edward, which is the 3rd built

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