Gamage

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Gamage Aster 6.5 HP Tonneau from 1903

Gamage was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The department store AW Gamage Limited , founded in 1878, began in 1903 in Holborn with the production of automobiles. In 1905 production was temporarily stopped. Vehicles were produced again between 1914 and 1915. The department store closed in 1972.

vehicles

The vehicles between 1903 and 1905 were built on chassis from Lacoste & Battmann . There are single-cylinder and two-cylinder engines from Aster and De Dion-Bouton used.

The vehicles from the period between 1914 and 1915 were equipped with four-cylinder engines from Chapuis-Dornier with 1244 cm³ and 1460 cm³ displacement .

A vehicle of this brand occasionally competes in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

literature

  • George N. Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Édition Courtille, Paris 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 , Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English)

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