Mégy

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L. Mégy
legal form
founding 1901
resolution 1903
Seat Paris
management Lucien Mégy
Branch Automobile manufacturer

L. Mégy was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company L. MEGY from Paris began in 1901 under the direction of Lucien MEGY with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Mégy . Production ended in 1903. It is unclear whether the company is identical to the company that received a patent for a machine with a vibrating cylinder in 1881 .

vehicles

The vehicles were particularly easy to use. The transmission was automated according to the standards of the time. Clutch and brakes were operated by raising and lowering the steering wheel. In 1903, three vehicles in the body shapes of tonneau , sedan and racing car stood at the Paris Motor Show . However, the racing car has not been used in an important race.

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)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

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 c Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ Anonymous: L. Mégy's innovations on machines with swinging cylinders. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 248, 1883, pp. 147-149.