Berkeley

There is little surviving official documentation on a consistent corporate logo for the original Berkeley microcar marque, so a concise brand history is given instead. Berkeley was a small British manufacturer of lightweight fibreglass microcars produced in the late 1950s, based in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire; the cars are noted for their distinctive rounded bodywork and use of two-stroke, motorcycle-derived engines. The marque achieved brief commercial success in the domestic and export markets before production ceased around 1960; many surviving examples are now preserved by enthusiasts and owners’ clubs. The brand’s visual identity today is mainly preserved and interpreted by enthusiast groups rather than a continuing corporate owner, so historic badges and scripts vary across surviving cars and restorations.