Messier Automobiles

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Messier Automobiles
legal form
founding 1920
resolution 1931
Seat Montrouge
management George Messier
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Messier from 1929

Messier Automobiles was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

George Messier owned a pneumatic equipment factory in Montrouge . He also developed a type of air suspension for various automobiles. In 1920 he founded Messier Automobiles and marketed the suspension. From 1924 he produced his own models. The brand name was Messier . In 1931 he gave up production and began to work with aircraft landing gears.

vehicles

The first models had a four-cylinder engine from CIME . The version for racing cars had OHC valve control and 1494 cm³ displacement and the version for touring cars and sedans had OHC valve control and 1598 cm³ displacement. Later, six-cylinder engines with 2770 cm³ and 3310 cm³ displacement and eight-cylinder engines with 3692 cm³ and 4850 cm³ were used. The largest engine came from Lycoming , the other engines are only known to have come from American manufacturers. The Type H with an eight-cylinder engine was available with two different wheelbases of 3401 mm and 3604 mm. Many of the 50 Type H vehicles produced were bodied as ambulances .

A vehicle of this brand was on display at the Musée Automobile Reims Champagne in Reims in 2002 .

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)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

Commons : Messier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.