Marlborough Engineering

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Marlborough Engineering Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1912
resolution 1922
Seat Blenheim , New Zealand
management John North Birch
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Marlborough Engineering Limited was a New Zealand manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Briton John North Birch emigrated to New Zealand in 1905. In 1912 he founded the company in Blenheim . He made engines and started developing an automobile. Production ran from 1919 to 1922. The brand name was Marlborough . Birch moved to Gisborne in 1922 and later founded the Carlton Car Company .

Deviating from this, one source states that the company name Geo. Birch, Motor Garage read.

Products

Birch made boat engines and stationary engines.

For his automobiles he developed a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 5823 cm³ , which is described as very complex. One source states that he ended up using a built-in motor from another manufacturer. Overall, there was only one vehicle that was used as a taxi after it was sold.

The buyer was James Fuller. The engine still exists today while the vehicle was scrapped.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b d'Auto (Dutch, accessed December 6, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Marlborough (II).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 953. (English)
  4. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed December 6, 2015)
  5. ^ A b c Marlborough Vintage Car Club and The Marlborough Engine . Marlborough Museums , archived from the original on January 23, 2016 ; accessed on April 29, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).