Irish Motor Concessionaires
| Irish Motor Concessionaires Limited | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1955 or earlier |
| resolution | 1959 or later |
| Seat | Lucan , Ireland |
| management | John Caldwell |
| Branch | Automobiles |
Irish Motor Concessionaires was an assembly plant for motor vehicles and thus part of the automotive industry in Ireland .
Company history
John Caldwell ran the company based in Lucan . He started assembling automobiles in 1955. The parts came from Messerschmitt AG . Production ended in 1959. Another source reportedly delivered kits for 40 vehicles.
Caldwell also ran the John Caldwell Limited in the same town from about 1960 to 1962 .
vehicles
The only model was the Messerschmitt cabin scooter . A picture shows the first version, the KR 175. A two-stroke engine with a displacement of 174 cm³ is also mentioned. Another illustration shows a partially assembled vehicle without a windscreen, where it is not clear whether it is a KR 175 or a KR 200. It also bears the Messerschmitt emblem and not the FMR logo of the vehicle and mechanical engineering company in Regensburg , which replaced Messerschmitt as the manufacturer in Germany in 1957.
Some of the vehicles assembled in Ireland still exist. In 1981, at a meeting in England, Jim Kavanagh reported that five vehicles were still known.
literature
- Bob Montgomery: Motor Assembly in Ireland . Dreoilín Specialist Publications, Foxrock 2018, ISBN 978-1-902773-35-3 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Bob Montgomery: Motor Assembly in Ireland . Dreoilín Specialist Publications, Foxrock 2018, ISBN 978-1-902773-35-3 (English).
- ↑ a b Jens Kron: Messerschmitt cabin roller. The speedy cars of the 50s. Battenberg-Verlag, Regenstauf 2006, ISBN 978-3-86646-004-1 , pp. 110-111.