Marseel

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Marseel is a former British car brand.

Company history

The company Marseal Motors Limited from Coventry was founded in 1919 by Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz (1897–1988) and Charles A. Seelhoff (1893–?) To manufacture automobile transmissions. Seelhoff was also a co-founder of the Emscote Motor Company in Warwick, which placed a major order for gearboxes with Marseal, but could not take it off.

Out of this embarrassment, Marendaz and Seelhoff decided to manufacture their own automobiles in which these surplus transmissions were installed. The cars were as Marseel marketed, a compound of the names of the two founders Mar endaz and Seel hope. When Seelhoff left the company in 1923, the brand was renamed Marseal in accordance with the company name .

Production was stopped in 1925. A total of around 1200 vehicles were built. Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz now manufactured vehicles under his name Marendaz .

vehicles

Marseel

The first 9/26 HP model from 1919 was equipped with a Coventry Simplex four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1496 cc . In the 11/55 HP successor model from 1920 to 1923, the displacement was 1496 cm³. The Six model with a six-cylinder engine and 1754 cm³ displacement was around between 1920 and 1921. The 10.8 HP from 1921 had 1498 cm³ displacement.

Marseal

Between 1924 and 1925 there were the four-cylinder models 11/27 HP with 1247 cm³ displacement, 12/40 HP with 1496 cm³ displacement and 11/40 HP with 1368 cm³ displacement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c motorbase.com: Manufacturers / Marendaz

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars. 1895-1975. New edition. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English).

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