American Motor Car Agency

American Motor Car Agency
legal form
founding	1913
resolution	1914
Seat	Brussels
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

American Motor Car Agency was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles . The brand name was AMA .

Company history

The Brussels-based company started producing automobiles in 1913. Production ended in 1914.

vehicles

The company imported chassis with four-cylinder engines from the United States and mounted wire spoked wheels and pointed radiator that the coolers of Métallurgique were similar. The displacement was either 2600 cm³ or 4503 cm³. Minet Frères made the bodies.

Sports activities

The racing driver Schuitten took second place with an AMA in the 20-kilometer race at the Meeting d'Ostende in 1913 .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nick Georgano : The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Publishing, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 . (English)
• Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian, Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-8705-7001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-8512-0090-9 . (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie and The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present
2. ↑ Histoire de l'automobile belgium.