Healey Elliott

The Healey Elliott was a four-seat, two-door sports saloon built by the Donald Healey Motor Company at Warwick from 1946 to 1950, and with the Westland roadster it formed the firm's first pair of production cars. Its body, an ash frame under aluminium panels, was made by Samuel Elliott and Sons, from whom the model takes its name, to a curvaceous design by Ben Bowden. It sat on Healey's own welded X-braced steel chassis with independent front suspension by trailing arms and coil springs, and it was powered by the 2.4-litre Riley four-cylinder engine. For a time it was the fastest closed four-seat production car in the world, clocking 110 mph at Jabbeke, Belgium, in 1947. Sources count 101 or 104 cars built, and the Tickford saloon replaced it in 1950.