General motor vehicles
General Motorwagen GmbH | |
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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.
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .