Garage modern

Garage modern
legal form
founding	1913
resolution	1956
Seat	Thouars
management	Adrien Morin
Number of employees	50
Branch	Automobile manufacturer , workshop
Status: 1922

Garage Moderne was a French automobile workshop and at times a manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Adrien Morin (1880–1968) gained experience in automobile construction at Vinot & Deguingand , Decauville and Cornilleau & Sainte-Beuve . In 1913 he founded in Thouars the company Garage Moderne as a repair workshop and began the production of automobiles . The brand name was Tuar . In 1922 the company had 50 employees. Automobile production ended in 1925. A total of around 800 vehicles were built. The company existed until 1956.

vehicles

Vehicles were produced on chassis by Malicet & Blin . Various built-in motors were available :

• Four-cylinder engine with 1244 cc, 1495 cc, 1503 cc and 1821 cc displacement of Chapuis-Dornier
• Four-cylinder engine with 1601 cm³ displacement and six-cylinder engine with 1496 cm³ displacement from CIME
• 1327 cc and 1496 cc engines from Fivet
• Ruby motors

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 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
• George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

• Article about the Tuar brand (French, accessed March 19, 2013; PDF; 501 kB)

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. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.