Roger-Benz

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Émile Roger
legal form
founding 1888
resolution 1896
Seat Paris , France
management Émile Roger
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Roger-Benz from 1895

Émile Roger was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Émile Roger bought a Benz car in 1887 . Soon after, he was selling Benz vehicles in France. In 1888 he founded his own company for the production of automobiles in Paris . It was marketed as Roger or Roger-Benz , since the vehicles were based on Benz models. Production ended in 1896. The Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company Ltd. from Birmingham under the direction of Frank Gardner and Léon L'Hollier sold the vehicles between 1896 and 1897 in England under the brand name Anglo-French . In its early years, the British company International Motor Car manufactured cars that corresponded to the Roger-Benz models.

In the USA there was the Roger American Mechanical Carriage Company , which was also founded by Émile Roger.

vehicles

The first model was a tricycle . A four-wheeled automobile followed in 1894. In 1895 vehicles with space for two to ten people were offered. Single-cylinder engines in the rear provided the drive .

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 3: P – Z. 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 : Roger-Benz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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.