Production chronology1949
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Coventry Victor / Model record
Coventry VictorVenus Prototype
Production1949
Recorded originUnited Kingdom
ClassThree-wheel passenger or light commercial vehicle; prototype passenger car
Built6 units
Postwar attempt to re-enter the car market. The six reported prototypes were ordered destroyed, but saloon YDU 502 survived, was recovered from a Devon farm with Science Museum grant assistance in 1981, and is held by Coventry Transport Museum. The survivor was first registered on 19 August 1959, ten years after construction; that registration date is not a production year. No retail price, dimensions, power output or full transmission specification is established.
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Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.
Research notes
Coventry Transport Museum records four saloons and two convertibles; none entered production and one survivor is known.