Endurance engine
Endurance Motor Co. Ltd. | |
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legal form | Limited Company |
founding | 1899 |
resolution | 1901 |
Seat | Coventry |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
The Endurance Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .
In 1899, the Coventry- based company began producing two models of passenger cars that were similar to Benz & Cie. resembled. A single-cylinder engine with either 4.5 HP or 6 HP power drove the rear axle via belts. They reached nowhere near the quality of the originals and named Endurance, German were endurance , not just.
The vehicles were not a sales success and production was discontinued in 1901.
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)
- David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 . Veloce Publishing, Poundbury 1997, pp. 390/487 ( excerpt online from Google [accessed June 15, 2014]).