Ivanhoe Motor Company

Ivanhoe Motor Company
legal form	Company
founding	1905
resolution	1909
Seat	Cricklewood , London
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Ivanhoe Motor Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from the London borough of Cricklewood began producing automobiles in 1905. The brand name was initially Mercury , later Ivanhoe . Production ended in 1906. Ivanhoe also sold vehicles from Dougill and Weigel Motors .

vehicles

The first model was the Mercury 24 HP . It was presented at the Olympic Show in February 1905. It had a conventional chassis with a four-cylinder engine that was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle. The wheelbase was 2817 mm. The body variants Tonneau and Phaeton offered space for four to six people.

From the Olympic Show in November 1905, the model was called Ivanhoe 24 HP .

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.