Healey Westland

The Healey Westland was an open four-seat, two-door roadster built by the Donald Healey Motor Company at Warwick from 1946 to 1950. It was the first Healey shown to the press, in early 1946, and the first to reach customers, in October 1946. The Association of Healey Owners names Westland of Hereford as the builder of its aluminium body, which gave the model its name, and the car shared the Elliott saloon's welded X-braced chassis, independent trailing-arm front suspension and 2.4-litre Riley four-cylinder engine. On its debut The Times praised it as a softly sprung car that held the road and was very fast, yet could still trickle through traffic smoothly and quietly. Sports Car Market counts 64 built and the owners' association 70, and the Abbott drophead coupe replaced it in 1950.