London Engine Company

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London Engine Company was a British automobile manufacturer that manufactured vehicles at the Phonophore Works in Southall, Middlesex , between 1912 and 1913 . The brand name was LEC

The only model was a cycle car . Its water-cooled two - cylinder engine with a displacement of 1080 cm³ developed 10 hp (7.4 kW). The vehicle also had a three-speed gearbox and a belt drive.

In 1913, cycle cars with two-stroke engines and a telephone system from LEC were also built under the Médinger brand .

literature

  • Culshaw, David & Horrobin, Peter: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 , Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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. 2001.