Medinger Cars & Engine

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The Medinger Cars & Engine Co. Ltd. was a British automobile manufacturer. The company was founded by the French racing driver Emile Médinger . In 1913 built Medinger in Southall (Middlesex) , at the same plant, which also vehicles for LEC were produced cyclecars . The car had a 1.0 liter two-cylinder two - stroke engine that ran on paraffin oil . The car had to be started with normal petrol . The first prototype, which was still designed by Sunbeam - with whom Emile Médinger was under contract as a racing driver - probably still had a chain drive. Whereas in the small series production a shaft drive was installed.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
  • David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 . Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1997). ISBN 1-874105-93-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The International Automobile Encyclopedia. 2008.