Egg (automobile manufacturer)

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Rudolf Egg
legal form
founding 1914
resolution 1919
Seat Zurich
management Rudolf Egg
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Egg was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Rudolf Egg, who previously headed Egg & Egli , founded the company for the production of automobiles in Zurich in 1914 . The production took place with the help of Fritz Moser from Moteurs Moser . The brand name was Egg . In 1919 the marketing as Egg ended. The Seebacher Maschinenbau AG took over production.

vehicles

There was only one model. Rudolf Egg designed the vehicle himself. A four-cylinder engine with side valves and 980 cm³ displacement from Zedel powered the car. The gearbox was mounted on the rear axle. The power was transmitted by a cardan shaft . There were two and four-seater versions on offer.

A vehicle still exists today.

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 Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
  • Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6