Endurance engine

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Endurance Motor Co. Ltd.
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

  1. ^ 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]).