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Miesse taxi in the Brussels Urban Transport Museum

Miesse was a Belgian automobile manufacturer who produced passenger cars and commercial vehicles from 1894 to 1974 .

Company history

Jules Miesse founded his mechanical workshop in 1894. The first vehicles were built from 1896. Turner-Miesse acquired a license . In 1927 the production of passenger cars was given up and only commercial vehicles were made. Some were also equipped with German Junkers diesel engines.

In 1929 Miesse bought the Bollinckx factory (a manufacturer of gas engines and steam engines as well as compressors and compressed air tools that has been active since 1890 ) in order to be able to expand truck production by 100 units a year. The new company was named Automobiles Miesse et Usines Bollinckx Société Anonyme . Miesse existed until 1974.

Passenger cars

Jules Miesse built his first automobile , a steam car , in 1896 . A series production did not begin until 1898. In the following years he made passenger and goods vehicles , of which until 1907 some of three-cylinder - steam engines were driven. These models had chassis made of reinforced wood and only the steam boiler under the "bonnet".

From 1900 the company experimented with gasoline engines. Famous in pre-war Brussels were the Miesse taxis, which were manufactured from 1904 onwards .

In 1907 a four-cylinder model with 3.7 liters displacement was introduced. It had a T-head engine with cylinders cast in pairs and a cardan drive . A six-cylinder version with 60 hp followed the following year (based on the calculation method used at the time); For the first time, Miesse used an engine block made from one piece (“monobloc”). In 1909, the 24/30 was a smaller version with a four-cylinder engine. From 1912 to 1913 there was a 3.7-liter model, 20 HP Valveless ("valveless"). This term is normally used for valve motors; the 20 hp had valves, but in connection with slides. The system did not prove itself, the 15/18 PS with 2.8 liter displacement, which was presented shortly afterwards, had a conventional valve control . The last models before the First World War had side-controlled in- line engines, a complex dry sump lubrication and the handbrake no longer worked on the differential , but also on the rear wheels.

Miesse passenger cars after the war had long-stroke ( bore  ×  stroke : 69 mm × 130 mm) OHV engines with 2-liter four-cylinder or 4-liter eight-cylinder engines; both engines had many parts in common.

Automobiles Dunamis

Between 1922 and 1926 the company also manufactured the Dunamis vehicles. One or two prototypes were created for Automobiles Dunamis, under the direction of Theo Verellen, which were exhibited at the Brussels motor shows of 1922 and 1923. It was a luxury vehicle. The eight-cylinder in - line engine with a capacity of 3386 cm³ was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear wheels.

After the Second World War, Miesse assembled Nash passenger cars for the European market.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kupélian / Kupélian / Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georgano: Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars , p. 483