Ogle Design

Many of Ogle’s iconic designs
Many of Ogle’s iconic designs are pictured on this card, commemorating the company’s 45th anniversary in 1999.
Ogle designed this, the first ‘Popemobile’, using a Range Rover. The Ogle logo ‘Project 2000’, Ogle’s idea of what a family car would look like, c. 1984. A ‘womens car’ designed for The Daily Telegraph Magazine, in 1968. The Ogle Triplex Glassback The Ogle Mini, c. 1962. The landspeeder and Y-Wing vehicles in 'Star Wars' were designed by Ogle

David Ogle Ltd. was established in 1960 and based on Birds Hill.

They were responsible for many iconic car designs, such as the Reliant Scimitar GTE and versions of the Mini, Riley 1.5 and Aston Martin V8. They also designed a ‘Popemobile’ for The Vatican.

In 1970 they designed the ‘Bond Bug’, a small orange three-wheeled car. Over two thousand were built and today they are collector’s items with their classic retro look. Ogle went on to design a more famous three-wheeled car, the Reliant Robin.

In addition, they designed and produced the Landspeeder and Y-Wing vehicles for the  1977 movie, ‘Star Wars’.

Ogle were also behind many iconic design classics, such as the Bush transistor radio, the original Chopper bicycle, the Cindico folding pushchair, the popular children’s game ‘Marble Madness’, and perhaps most importantly, the crash test dummy.