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Cairo Motor Co., Ltd. was an automobile manufacturer and dealer in Egypt .

history

The company was founded by Edmund Flower in 1908 and initially sold brands such as Rover and Napier . Shortly afterwards, Flower received a license from Ford for Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Syria and Cyprus.

Neville and Raymond Flower - the two sons of the company's founder - also received the license from Rolls-Royce and Bentley for the entire Middle East at the end of the 1940s. As early as 1951, Egypt was Rolls-Royce's largest export market. At the same time, Cairo Motor assembled CKD kits from Austin and Morris models.

Standalone vehicles were manufactured between 1954 and 1956 and marketed as Phoenix .

Models

Through his motorsport activities, Raymond Flower met Gordon Bedson in London, who designed a tubular frame chassis for Flower, from which a small sports car was created with a handcrafted body. Of this model - called the Phoenix Flamebird - either around a dozen or 30 were made and sold, depending on the source.

Bedson also designed a two-seater, the Phoenix 2SR6 (sometimes called SR150 ). When it came to the engine, it was decided to use a 2-liter engine. The vehicle, assembled in Alexandria in 1955, was supposed to start in Le Mans in 1956, but this did not happen due to political circumstances.

Because of the Suez crisis, the Flower family had to leave Egypt. Raymond Flower continued his business in exile in Britain. Together with engineer Henry Meadows , he developed the Frisky , which went into series production in September 1958.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Phoenix (IV).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1223. (English)
  • Marian Suman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland Books, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA, 2000, ISBN 978-0-786-40972-3 , p. 226. (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Torque like an Egyptian , in Motor Sport Magazine , August 1997, pp. 64-65.
  2. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Phoenix (IV).
  3. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1223. (English)