Benjamin Bowden was the car designer and engineer responsible for the Healey 2.4, the first post-WWII 100mph production car, but like Mini suspension designer Alex Moulton after him, he was fascinated by the idea of improving the bike. His patent said he had just intended to “provide improvement of aesthetic and practical character” to the bike, but many features of the design that became the Spacelander were radical departures for the time. Bowden moved to the US to seek backing for the bike, and over a decade later, in 1960, the production Spacelander was built in Michigan with a fibreglass frame and a more conventional chain drive.
Author: road.cc Tech
Published at: 2025-06-08 20:45:00
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