Martin Automobiles

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Martin Automobiles
legal form
founding 1972
resolution 1996
Reason for dissolution liquidation
Seat Les Sables-d'Olonne
management Georges Martin
Number of employees 27
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Martin TTM

Martin Automobiles , previously Martin Production , was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In 1972, Georges Martin founded Martin Production in Les Sables-d'Olonne . At first he manufactured tubular frames for racing motorcycles, later also almost complete motorcycles, but without engines. In 1984 the prototype of an automobile was created. Production started in 1986. In the same year the name was changed to Martin Automobiles . The brand name was Martin . The vehicles were u. a. exported to Belgium , Great Britain , Japan and Portugal . Sales in Germany took over Laurent Pigeau Automobiles from Inning . The vehicles were available both complete and as a kit car . In autumn 1995 the company had 27 employees. Production ended in 1996 when the company went into liquidation . Société Vibraction , founded in Roanne in 1997, continued to manufacture the Tilbury model .

vehicles

The first model TTM or TTM GM 0 was a roadster in the style of the Lotus Seven . A four-cylinder engine from the Ford Sierra with a displacement of 1600 cm³ provided the drive . This was followed by replicas of the AC Cobra named Matou or TTM GM 1 and the Ford GT 40 as GTA 40 or TTM GM3 . V6 engines and V8 engines from Ford with 3000 and 5000 cc displacement were available for these models .

In addition, Martin took over the production of the Tilbury in 1991 , which continued to be marketed as Tilbury .

Production numbers

The company produced around 550 replicas of the Lotus Seven, around 90 replicas of the AC Cobra, 7 replicas of the Ford GT 40 and around 130 Tilbury . Together, that's around 777 vehicles. Of these, 590 were registered in France.

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)
  • Bernd Ostmann (Editor-in-Chief): Auto Catalog 1996. Vereinigte Motor-Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart 1995.

Web links

Commons : Martin Automobiles  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b c d Club Automobile Martin - model overview ( Memento from April 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (French, accessed on November 15, 2013)
  4. ↑ Auto Catalog 1996.
  5. ^ A b Club Automobile Martin numbers ( memento from April 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (French, accessed November 15, 2013)