Millot Frères

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Millot Frères
legal form
founding 1805
resolution 1990
Seat Gray
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Millot from 1900
Millot in a Moscow museum
Millot in the Nobels Nostalgic Museum

Millot Frères was a French company.

Company history

The company was founded in Gray in 1805 to manufacture agricultural equipment. Stationary motors added to the range in 1892 . Around 1900 the company employed around 1000 people. Automobiles were also made between 1900 and 1902 . After 1945 business was in decline. The tractor and truck manufacturer Labourier took over the company. Millot initially remained as a small workshop within Labourier and in 1987 employed 10 people. In 1990 Millot was finally over.

vehicles

The origin of automobiles were mobile chainsaws. The first model had a two-cylinder engine that was arranged horizontally and powered the rear wheels via a chain. The engine output was either 6 hp or 8 hp. This was followed by a four-cylinder model with 12 hp and a tonneau body shape . In 1902 a four-cylinder model with 8 hp and a single-cylinder model with 9 hp were added.

According to sources, three vehicles still exist. However, the actual number is higher:

  • The now closed Raule Automobile Museum from Eppstein exhibited a vehicle in 1998.
  • The now closed Bad Sassendorf Automobile Museum from Bad Sassendorf exhibited a vehicle in 1999.
  • The Oldtimer Museum Kröpfl from Hartberg exhibited a vehicle in 2000, but no longer in 2013.
  • In 2002, a vehicle was exhibited in the now closed car museum of the Autotron in Rosmalen .
  • In the Musée de la Commanderie in Viâpres-le-Petit was 2,002 a vehicle.
  • The Oldtimer Galerie International GmbH from Toffen presented a vehicle in 2010 and 2012.
  • There is a vehicle in the Marxzell Vehicle Museum in Marxzell .
  • There is also a vehicle in a Moscow museum.
  • In the Nobels Nostalgisch Museum in Ballum on the Dutch island of Ameland there is a vehicle that took part in the 1967 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

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 : Millot  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b c Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.