General motor vehicles

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General Motorwagen GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1897
resolution 1898
Reason for dissolution Conversion to motor vehicle and engine factory in Berlin
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Adolf Altmann
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The General Motor Car GmbH was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

A consortium of armaments industrialists , including Heinrich Ehrhardt , Emil Rathenau and Frederick Richard Simms , took over the machine factory from Adolf Altmann in 1897, which had been manufacturing stationary engines for agriculture since 1879 . The Berlin-based company continued to manufacture stationary engines, but also began producing automobiles. The brand name was AMG . Production ended in 1898. The motor vehicle and engine factory in Berlin took over the company.

vehicles

The vehicles had either a petrol or an electric motor . In some cases, patent rights from Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft were used for this.

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