Autogear Limited

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Autogear Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1922
resolution 1923
Seat Leeds , UK
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Autogear Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Leeds company started producing automobiles in 1922. The brand name was Autogear . MacLysaght & Douglas of Dublin planned to manufacture Autogear vehicles for Ireland and sell them as Leprechauns . Production ended in 1923. There was no connection to the Foster Engineering Company , which used the same brand name in 1922.

vehicles

The only model was a tricycle. It was similar to the Bramham and Stanhope Brothers models . The only wheel was in the front. A V-2 engine of Blackburne driven via a belt to the front wheel.

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 (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.