Automobiles Mors

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Automobiles Mors

logo
legal form
founding 1851
resolution 1943
Seat Paris , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Mors was a French company from Paris that manufactured automobiles and racing cars. The racing cars achieved great success at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Part Beneficiaire of the Société d'Automobiles Mors of November 5, 1909

Company history

In 1851, Mr Mirand started a company on rue Saint-Martin in Paris to produce artificial flowers. For this he used paper and wire. In 1874 Louis Mors took over the company. Motors emerged later. In 1895, with the help of Henri Brasier, automobile production began. The company was now called Société d'Électricité et d'Automobiles Mors . In 1908 it was renamed Société Nouvelle d'Automobiles Mors . Mors obtained many bodies in the years before the First World War from J. Rothschild & Fils . The company passed to Citroën in 1925 . Between 1941 and 1943 a few electric cars were built in a small branch of the company.

vehicles

On August 5, 1902, a Mors Z was the first car with an internal combustion engine to break the land speed record from electric cars and steam cars .

The Frenchman Emile Mors entered the race Marseille-La Turbie in 1897 for the first time in his race car.

Camille Jenatzy began his racing career on Mors, he finished seventh in the Tour de France for automobiles in 1899 .

From 1898 Levegh drove for the team. At first they were inferior to their rivals Panhard & Levassor , but Mors was able to celebrate a superior victory at Paris-Toulouse-Paris in 1900 .

With Henri Fournier's victory at Paris-Berlin in 1901 and Fernand Gabriel's success in the abandoned Paris-Madrid race in 1903 , the team was able to win two more important races from the early days of motorsport.

Charles Stewart Rolls sold the French cars in the UK and he succeeded in a race in Phoenix Park of Dublin in 1903, a brief world record at 93 mph (150 km / h) on a Mors.

  • Mors 6 HP Dogcart from 1898

  • Mors from 1901

  • Mors 16 HP sedan from 1902

  • Mors 32 HP Roi-des-Belges from 1904

  • Front car is a Mors racing car from 1906

  • Mors Tonneau Ferme Type N from 1910 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf

  • Mors from 1913

  • Mors 30 HP torpedo from 1922

  • Mors from 1925

The team then began to decline, and the new 12.8 liter car disappointed at the 1908 French GP . A planned comeback a few years later was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War .

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 : Mors  - 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. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )