Egan Motor Body Works

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Egan Motor Body Works was an Australian manufacturer of bodywork and automobiles .

Company history

The Geelong company had been manufacturing car bodies since 1916. One customer was the Ford Motor Company of Australia . By 1930 alone, around 8,000 bodies were built. In 1935 the production of automobiles began. In the same year many orders were received at the Melbourne Motor Show . The brand name was Egan . Their production ended the following year. A total of two vehicles were built.

vehicles

The basis was a stable chassis . The vehicles were powered by a six-cylinder Lycoming engine with 80 hp . The axles were from Columbia and the brakes from Bendix . The three-speed transmission was synchronized . The four-door sedan was aerodynamically shaped and resembled the Chrysler Airflow .

literature

  • 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 , p. 485. (English)
  • Tony Davis: Aussie Cars. A Pedr Davis Production . Marque Publishing Company, Hurstville 1987, ISBN 0-947079-01-7 , pp. 61 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 485. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Tony Davis: Aussie Cars. A Pedr Davis Production . Marque Publishing Company, Hurstville 1987, ISBN 0-947079-01-7 , pp. 61 (English).