Marguerite type BO 5

The Marguerite type BO 5 was a sporty passenger car.

Manufacturer and construction time

The French company Société A. Marguerite from Courbevoie started producing automobiles around 1922 . The Marguerite type BO 5 was the manufacturer's second model. Production began around 1923 and ended around 1926. At the same time, the Type B , Type BO and Type BO 7 models were created .

vehicle

The chassis was a conventional chassis with a front engine and rear wheel drive . A four-cylinder built -in engine from Chapuis-Dornier with 1095 cm³ displacement and OHV valve control provided the drive . The vehicles were built in the body shape of open touring cars and as closed limousines .

successor

The successor was the Marguerite type BO 2 .

Delivery of the chassis to other companies

Automobiles Induco procured chassis of this model, completed the chassis with its own interior fittings and its own bodies and offered these vehicles under the brand name Induco .
Automobiles MS procured chassis of this model, completed the chassis to complete cars and offered these vehicles under the brand name MS .

literature

George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Publishing, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 . (English)
George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
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)

Web links

Brief description of the company with some photos, also of type BO 5 (Spanish, accessed April 27, 2014)

Individual evidence

↑ Cars. Encyclopédie complète and Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie name 1920 as the start of production;
The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles , The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars , Die große Automobil-Enzyklopädie , The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile and GTÜ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH name 1922
and Guide de l'automobile française name 1923.
^ The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile

[1] Cars. Encyclopédie complète and Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie name 1920 as the start of production;
The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles , The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars , Die große Automobil-Enzyklopädie , The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile and GTÜ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH name 1922
and Guide de l'automobile française name 1923.

[Beaulieu-2] The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile