Rome Carmel Industries

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Rome Carmel Industries
legal form
founding 1974
resolution 1981
Seat Haifa , IsraelIsraelIsrael 
Branch Motor vehicles

Rome Carmel Industries was an Israeli manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The company from Haifa continued the production of automobiles from 1974 as the successor to the Autocars Company . The brand names were Rome and Rome Carmel . In October 1977 there was a merger with Urdan Industries . Up to 1979, 650 people were employed, after that 400 people. Production ended in the summer of 1981. The number of vehicles produced fell annually from the beginning of 1600 to 540 in 1980.

vehicles

The 1301 was a four-door sedan with a fiberglass body . The 1300 panel van and a pick-up were derived from this . A four-cylinder engine of triumph with 1,296 cc displacement and 54 hp power powered vehicles.

Another source indicates that the sedan and station wagon were initially named 1300 and after a facelift 1301 . Accordingly, a Simca engine with a capacity of 1295 cm³ powered the vehicles.

Web links

  • d'Auto (Dutch, accessed May 14, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Rome; Rome Carmel.
  2. a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1365. (English)
  3. Keith Adams: Around the world: Autocars of Israel On: AR Online from May 1, 2016 (English, accessed May 14, 2016)