Beckmann / BCS

Ottmar J.H. Beckmann was a Swedish-based motor-technical engineer of German origin who trained in Berlin, interned in the Netherlands in 1936, and later worked for Volkswagen, Mercedes, Borgward, and the British firm I.T.T. In 1965 he began developing a car of his own design, building Formula 3 racers using a hard polymer plastic supplied by Bayer of Leverkusen. The results evidently impressed Bayer enough that the chemical company backed him…