J. Castro
J. Castro Sociedad en Comandita | |
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legal form | Sociedad en Comandita |
founding | 1901 |
resolution | 1904 |
Reason for dissolution | Financial problems |
Seat | Barcelona , Spain |
management | Juan Jaime Castro, Marc Birkigt |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
J. Castro Sociedad en Comandita was a Spanish manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
Juan Jaime Castro founded a company manufacturing automobiles in Barcelona in 1901 . He took over La Cuadra and its chief engineer Marc Birkigt and made Birkigt his partner. The brand name was Castro . On December 11, 1903, the company went bankrupt . In 1904, production ended after just eight vehicles were produced. Hispano-Suiza later developed from it .
vehicles
The company offered two models with two-cylinder engines . One was the 10 HP . One model had a displacement of 2281 cm³, the other 6805 cm³ ( bore 190 mm, stroke 120 mm). There was also the 14 HP with a four-cylinder engine and 2217 cm³ displacement. The vehicles had a cardan drive .
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 : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
- GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
- David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 (English)
Web links
Commons : Castro - collection of images, videos and audio files
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)