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Compagnie des Moteurs et Autos MLB
legal form
founding 1894
resolution 1902
Seat Passy-sur-Seine , France
management J. Landry, G. Beyroux
Branch Automobiles

At the right edge of the picture the injured MLB of the Marquis de Montaignac

The Compagnie des Moteurs et Autos MLB was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

J. Landry and G. Beyroux founded the company in Hondouville in 1894 and began manufacturing automobiles. Later the company moved to Passy-sur-Seine . Production ended in 1902. The LB stand for the company owner L andry and B eyroux. The vehicles were also marketed as Landry et Beyroux .

vehicles

The first model was equipped with a single-cylinder engine with 4 hp in the rear, three-speed transmission and chain drive . One copy was registered in the Paris – Rouen car race in 1894 , but was probably not at the start. Between 1896 and 1898 racing cars with an output of 5 HP and later 6 HP took part in motor races that ran from town to town. These vehicles started in the class for light automobiles ; on the reliability run Paris-Marseille-Paris in the fall of 1896, Landry placed 13th and second last at the finish. More than half of the vehicles failed. In 1901 a small car appeared.

In June 2017, a German dealer for classic vehicles offered a vehicle from 1895 that had been preserved.

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)

Web links

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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.
  3. ↑ a b c d Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ teamdan.com: teamdan.com: 1894 Grand Prix and Paris Races.
  5. ↑ teamdan.com: teamdan.com: 1896 Grand Prix and Paris Races.
  6. ↑ Offer from June 2017 ( Memento from June 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 24, 2017)