GF Milnes & Company

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GF Milnes & Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles .

Company history

Milnes-Daimler double-decker bus from 1907

The Wellington company originally manufactured tram cars. In 1901 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Milnes . Automobile production ended in 1902. Commercial vehicles, which were also marketed as Milnes-Daimler , were built until 1914.

vehicles

Milnes obtained chassis from the motor vehicle and engine factory in Berlin . Own bodies were mounted on it. There were three models with four-cylinder engines on offer . 12 HP and 16 HP had cardan drive and the 24 HP chain drive.

The trucks carried a payload of up to 6 tons and the buses had up to 36 seats.

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 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.