Jack Turner, a racing car builder, founded Turner Sports Cars in 1951, building cars near Wolverhampton. After a series of one-off racing cars, the company moved into small-scale production of light, glass-fibre-bodied sports cars.
The first production model was the A30 Sports, also known as the 803, which used the engine and running gear of the Austin A30; the 950 Sports followed with the A35’s larger engine. The Turner Sports Mk I, Mk II and Mk III that came after were offered with a choice of engines, including BMC A-series, Coventry Climax and Ford units, and many were sold for club racing. A Turner GT coupé was also built.
Turner cars were well regarded for their handling, but production was always small. After Jack Turner suffered a heart attack the company went into liquidation in April 1966, around 100 Mk IIIs having been built.
