Ricart

Ricart from 1922

Ricart (also under the name Ricart y Pérez ) was a Spanish manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Sociedad Anonima de los Motores Ricart y Pérez was founded in 1922 in Barcelona by Wifredo Ricart and Francisco Pérez Olaguer to manufacture automobiles. In 1926 the production of the automobiles was stopped, while the company continued and the Rex engines continued to be produced until 1960. Wifredo Ricart first founded his own company Ricart before in 1928 with Felipe Batllo y Godó, who at Automóviles España , worked Ricart-España founded.

vehicles

Mainly racing cars were produced. The first model had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1000 cc . In 1926 a six-cylinder model with 1500 cm³ displacement was added. In addition, attempts were made in 1926 with the six-cylinder model 10 HP with a valve motor, but these did not lead to series production.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Col·lecció Ramón Magriñá i Berga in Masllorenç .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
• George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)

Web links

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

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)
• Automoviles y coches Ricart y Pérez ( Memento of July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entrevista a Wifredo Ricart (Spanish)