Kingsburgh Motor Construction Company

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Kingsburgh Motor Construction Company
legal form Company
founding 1900
resolution 1902
Reason for dissolution Takeover by Stirling's Motor Carriages
Seat Edinburgh , UKUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Kingsburgh Motor Construction Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1900 in the Edinburgh district of Granton. The Madelvic Carriage Company was taken over. In 1901 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Kingsburgh . Production ended in 1902. Stirling's Motor Carriages took over the company.

vehicles

First, electric cars in the style of Madelvic were created. There was also the 12 HP with a gasoline engine . The two-cylinder engine developed 12 hp . A fourteen- seat bus took part in the Scottish Automobile Club Run in 1901 .

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. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.