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Aberdonia (car)

1912 Aberdonia Landau

The Aberdonia was an English car manufactured in Park Royal, London from 1911 to 1915 by the coachbuilders Brown, Hughes and Strachan. The engine was a 3160 cc, 4 cylinder, side valve unit rated at 20 hp for taxation purposes. It cost £500 with seven-seated touring coachwork, or £700 with “special landau body”.

At the 1911 London Motor Show a one-off design, mid-engined and forward-control with the driver ahead of the engine was displayed.

1911 Aberdonia Park Royal Landau

Aberdonia ad.

Brown, Hughes and Strachan Ltd Park Royal Model De Luxe Town Landau. BHS The Standard of Quality

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See also

List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

Aberdonia automobiles, 1911 to 1915 London, England, UK Aberdonia (car) 1912 Aberdonia Landau The Aberdonia was an English car manufactured in Park Royal, London from 1911 to 1915 by the 

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Abbott-Detroit

Abbott-Detroit Motor Car Company Industry Automobile Fate Bankrupt Founded 1909 Defunct 1919 Headquarters Detroit, Michigan, later Cleveland, Ohio Products automobiles

In 2015 I already made a blog about Abbott Motor Car Company in Detroit

Abbott-Detroit 1911

The Abbott-Detroit was an American luxury automobile manufactured between 1909 and 1919. It was considered powerful and well-designed, and had a Continental engine. Production of the auto began in Detroit, Michiganand was moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1916 at which time the automobile name was shortened to Abbott. The cars were guaranteed for life by 1913, when electric lighting and starting had been standardized.

History

black and white photograph of the Abbott Motor Company showing a truck and three automobiles next to the building

The Abbott Motor Car Company was established in 1909 in Detroit located at 107 Waterloo Street. The Abbott-Detroit offered a choice of either 4-cylinder or 6-cylinder Continental engine. The car could also be purchased with an 8-cylinder Herschell-Spillman engine.

In 1911, Abbott-Detroit models included a Model B 5-passenger Touring Car priced at US$1500.00, a Roadster US$1500.00, four-door Dimi-Tonneau with detachable tonneau US$1650, Coupe US$2350. The company motto that year was “The Up-To-The-Minute Car.”

The next year, the company offerings included the 1912 Model-44, a 7-passenger 4-door Touring Car that was sold for US$1,800. Additionally, a 4-door Demi-Tonneau for US$1,775, a 4-door Limousine fully equipped for US$3,000. The company also built a less expensive line known as the Model 34′ which included a 4-door Touring Car that came without a top and windshield which sold for US$1,350, a 4-door Roadster, also without a top and windshield, for US$1,275 and a Colonial Coupe fully equipped for US$2,150.

Consolidated car company

By 1916, the company changed its name to Consolidated Car Company and production of these cars had reached 15 to 20 units a day.

That same year, the company moved from Detroit to a larger facility in Cleveland and changed their name to the Abbott Motor Corporation. The automobiles built in Cleveland were called Abbott. The move proved too stressful on the company’s finances, and they declared bankruptcy in April 1918.

Models

Models that Abbott-Detroit offered included:

34/45 hp (25/30 kW) Foredoor Roadster

Limousine (1913 model)

44/40 hp (33/37 kW) Battleship Roadster

34 hp (25 kW) Model F

31 hp (24 kW) Model L

22 hp (20 kW) Model K

Prices ranged from US$1700 for the Foredoor to US$3050 for the Limousine.

Pictures from my own collection:

See also

Brass Era car

List of defunct automobile manufacturers

References

Abbott-Detroit vehicles.

^ Jump up to:abcdef “American Automobiles – Abbott-Detroit Automobile”. Farber and Associates, LLC – 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2011.

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Abadal

The Imperia-Abadal model was manufactured by Imperia under Abadal license

Abadal Vehicles

The Abadal was a Spanish car manufactured between 1912 and 1923, named after Francisco Abadal. Considered a fast luxury car, it was closely patterned on the Hispano-Suiza and offered in two models. One had a 3104 cc four-cylinder engine while the other had a 4521 cc six-cylinder engine.

Soon after the inception of the Abadal line, the Belgian company Impéria began building Abadals under license as Impéria-Abadals. In 1916 Abadal acquired the Buick agency, and Barcelona-built Abadals after that year had Buick power units and featured custom coachwork. These cars were called “Abadal-Buicks”. M. A. Van Roggen (formerly of Springuel) took over the Belgian operation soon after, and built around 170 more Impéria-Abadals. Among the models produced were a 2992cc 16-valve four-cylinder OHC sports model and three prototype 5630 cc straight-eights. The company ceased automobile production in 1923.

Francisco Abadal (nicknamed Paco) was a Hispano-Suiza salesman and racing driver in Barcelona. He began this enterprise in 1912, and upon its cessation became an agent of General Motors in Spain. General Motors’ plans in 1930 related to a prototype named the Abadal Continental never materialised.

Abadal 25 HP 1914

Abadal-Buick 1923

Abadal Y-12 aero-engine

Abadal also produced the Abadal Y-12 aero-engine, a multiple bank in-line engine with twelve cylinders in three banks of four arranged in a Y.

References

Jump up^ Burgess Wise, David (1979). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. London: New Burlington Books. ISBN0 906286 16 6.

Imperia Automobiles

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Impéria Automobiles was a Belgian automobile factory, active from 1906 until 1948. The factory in Nessonvaux, Liège, Belgium, had a rooftop test track since 1928.

Imperia 7-25 CV from 1932

History

Imperia TA-9 BS 1938

1948 Imperia TA-8 Sport

Standard Vanguard convertible built by Imperia

Impéria was a Belgian automobile manufactured from 1906 until 1948. Products of the Ateliers Piedboeuf of Liège, the first cars were designed by the German Paul Henze. These were four-cylinders of 3, 4.9, and 9.9 litres. The next year, the company moved to Nessonvaux, Trooz municipality, and began production in the old Pieper factory. Impéria produced a monobloc 12 hp (8.9 kW) in 1909. In 1910, the company merged with Springuel.

The Nessonvaux factory began producing Impéria-Abadals from about 1916. In 1921, it built three ohc 5.6-litre straight-eights. These were quickly replaced by an ephemeral ohc 3-litre 32-valve four-cylinder which had a top speed of 90 mph (140 km/h). This was followed by an 1100 cc slide-valve 11/22 hp four designed by Couchard, one of the first cars ever built with a sunroof. Its engine rotated counterclockwise, and its transmission brake also served as a servo for those on the front wheels. In 1927 a six-cylinder of 1624 cc appeared; this had been available in three-carburettor Super Sports form from 1930.

In 1925, the company hired Louis de Monge as chief research engineer. Some of his work included torsion bar suspension and automatic transmissions. De Monge left in 1937 to join Bugatti, where he would design the Bugatti 100P racer plane.

Around and on top of the factory buildings, there was a test track over 1 km long. The track was built in 1928. The only other rooftop test tracks were on Fiat’s Lingotto plant, opened in 1923, and Palacio Chrysler in Buenos Aires, opened in 1928.

Over the course of four years, Impéria took over three other Belgian car manufacturers: Métallurgique (1927), Excelsior (1929), and Nagant (1931). From 1934 until the company folded it built mainly front-wheel-drive Adlers with Belgian-made coachwork. The company merged with Minerva in 1934, but they split in 1939.

In addition to its production in Belgium, Impéria made a number of cars in Great Britain; these were assembled at a factory in Maidenhead.

From 1947 to 1949 Impéria built its last model TA-8 which combined an Adler Trumpf Junior-type chassis with an engine originally intended for the Amilcar Compound.

After 1948 Impéria assembled Standard Vanguards under license and also built a unique convertible version. After Standard decided to set up a new factory in Belgium, the factory was left without work and had to close doors in 1957.

Imperia Nessonvaux piste

In popular culture

In Michael Chabon‘s 2004 novel The Final Solution, set in 1944, the Anglican vicar drives a Belgian Impéria.

2009 revival

The Imperia GP was going to be sold in 2013. The car was designed by Denis Stevens. The Imperia GP roadster would have had PowerHybrid motorization technology developed by Green Propulsion.

Pictures from my collection:

SONY DSC

SONY DSC

  References

Jump up^ Pegasus, newsletter of the Bugatti Association, issue 23

Jump up^ “Trooz (Municipality, Province of Liège, Belgium)”. 12 January 2010.

Jump up^ “Testing cars on the factory rooftop – Imperia (Nessonvaux, Liège, Belgium)”. 21 April 2009.

Jump up^ Ritzinger, André. “Imperia TA-8”. http://www.ritzsite.nl. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

Jump up^ The Final Solution, pp. 87, 88.

Jump up^ “Imperia Automobiles”. Imperia-auto.be. Retrieved 19 July 2009.

David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Automobile

External links

History of the company (in French)

Site with pictures

Imperia

Green Propulsion

Abadal – Imperia – Buick Abadal The Imperia-Abadal model was manufactured by Imperia under Abadal license Abadal Vehicles The Abadal was a 

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Monica (automobile), Balbigny, Loire, France 1972 till 1974

Monica (automobile), Balbigny, Loire, France 1972 till 1974

Monica 560

1973 Monica 560 Overview Manufacturer Monica Model years 1973 – 1975 Assembly France: Balbigny, Loire Designer Tony Rascanu, David Coward Body and chassis Class Grand tourer Body style 4-door sedan Layout Longitudinal front-engine, rear-wheel drive Powertrain Engine 5.6 L Chrysler LA V8(gasoline) Transmission 3-speed automatic (TorqueFl…

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Glas (company)

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Glas Goggomobil 250

Hans Glas GmbH is a former German automotive company, which was based in Dingolfing. Originally a maker of farm machinery, Glas evolved first into a producer of motor scooters, then automobiles. It was purchased by BMW in 1966, mainly to gain access to Glas’s patents; they were the first to use a timing belt with an overhead camshaft in an automotive application. Its limited model range was shortly phased out by its new parent.

History

Glas 1700 GT Cabriolet, 1965

Mechanic Andreas Glas founded a repair company for agricultural machines at 1895 in Pilsting. He named the company Andreas Glas, Reparaturwerkstätte für landwirtschaftliche Maschinen mit Dampfbetrieb (in English: Andreas Glas, repair-shop for steam-powered agricultural machines). During the summer periods about 16 people worked for him. In 1905 Andreas Glas’ company built their first crop sowing machines (seed drill). He then had sufficient work to employ all his employees during the winters. The production of sowing machines rose from year to year:

Winter period 1905/06 – 10 sowing machines

Autumn 1906 – 20 pieces

Winter period 1906/07 – 40 machines

1907 – 60 pieces

Winter period 1907/08 – 254 sowing machines.

Since 1905 Glas had a branch office in Dingolfing. He started to produce in Dingolfing in 1908 with 150 sowing machines per year. The production count rose each year.

After World War II, the market for sowing machines was declining, and the company began building little carrows and later working machines for bakers along with sowing machines.

Products

Goggomobil TS 250 Coupe.

Glas were known for small cars like the Goggomobil. However, in 1964 the company introduced the Glas 1300GT coupe and later the 1700GT. The body was designed by Pietro Frua. However competition, mostly from British cars, was tough and in 1966 they released the 2600GT powered by a SOHC V8 engine, with a volume just under 2.6 litres. However this didn’t help and later the same year the company was sold to BMW. The Glas models were kept in production by BMW, but fitted with BMW engines. The Glas 1300 GT coupe was fitted with a 1.6-litre BMW engine and renamed BMW 1600 GT. BMW also fitted a 3-litre engine and named it 3000 GT. This model kept the Glas name, but had a BMW logo in the front and rear. In 1968 BMW created their own large coupe, the BMW 2500 CS, and this meant the end for Glas. 277 copies of 2600 GT was made and 389 of the 3000 GT.

Scooters

Glas Goggo scooter with sidecar

In 1951 Andreas Glas saw the Vespa scooter from Piaggio in Verona, Italy. He was so enthused that he began production of motor scooters that July.

The scooter debuted with a 125 cc motor, increased over time to 150 cc and 200 cc. Until 1956 46,181 motor scooters were built. Production of scooters stopped because of the Goggomobil cars. From 1953 on, load-carrying scooters were built as well. With the 200 cc engine and 9.5 bhp, they had a load capacity of 200 kg.

Cars

A 1966 Glas 2600 with Glas logo, nicknamed Glaserati

A 1968 BMW Glas 3000GT. Notice the BMW logo in the front, but that it otherwise doesn’t look like a BMW.

1958 Goggomobil Transporter van

Goggomobil T250, T300, T400, Sedan (1955-1969), Coupé (1957-1969), Transporter (1957-1965)

1957 goggomobil isar

Glas Isar T600, T700 (1958-1965)

Glas 1004

Glas 1204

Glas 1304

Glas 1004, 1204, 1304 (1962-1968)

Glas 1300 GT all models

Glas 1700 GT + all models

Glas 1300 GT, 1700 GT (1963-1967)

Glas 1700 (1964-1968)

Glas 2600

Glas 3000 V8

Glas 2600 V8, 3000 V8 (“Glaserati”) (1966-1968)

Absorption by BMW

In 1962 BMW released the BMW 1500. The popular four-door compact’s success exhausted the production capacity of the Munich plant. In 1966 management decided to buy Glas and absorb the Glas model line. Most of Glas’ existing lineup was retired, while some models ended up being badged as BMWs until the company was fully absorbed. It was reputed that the acquisition was mainly to gain access to Glas’ development of the timing belt with an overhead camshaft in automotive applications, although some saw Glas’ Dingolfing plant as another incentive. However, this factory was outmoded and BMW’s biggest immediate gain was, according to themselves, a stock of highly qualified engineers and other personnel. The Glas factory began the manufacture of BMW front and rear axles until they could be modernized and fully incorporated into BMW.

BMW immediately retired most of the Glas range, including all of the outdated microcars.

Changes under BMW

The 04-type, the GT and the 1700 sedan were given BMW badges in the last year of their production.

The GT was reengineered and so it was built with a BMW engine and rear axle and sold as BMW 1600 GT until 1968.

The V8 got a bigger engine constructed by Glas and was also sold until 1968 as BMW-GLAS 3000 V8.

The 1700 sedan was built and sold by a South African importer with several changes as BMW 1800 SA until 1974.

The Goggomobil T300, T400, T400 Coupé (renamed Sport), Glas Isar T700 and the Glas 1204 were licensed for manufacture in Argentina during the 1960s.

Closure

In the late 1960s BMW shut down Glas and built entirely new production facilities, which would eventually become an important production site. As of 2008, BMW’s Dingolfing branch is BMW’s largest factory, with 22,000 workers producing 5-, 6- and 7-Series cars and as well as bodies for Rolls-Royce.

References

^ Jump up to:a b Torrey, Volta, ed. (April 1953). “Scooter to Tote Farm Loads”. Popular Science. Vol. 162 no. 4. New York, NY USA. p. 100. ISSN 0161-7370. Retrieved 2012-05-19. This three-wheel cargo scooter, powered by a two-cycle engine, can chug along hauling as much as 440 pounds of goods in the little van at the rear.

Jump up^ “BMW take over Glas”. Autocar. Vol. 125 nbr 3689. 28 October 1966. p. 955.

Jump up^ Toronto Star 3 July 2004

Jump up^ Becker, Clauspeter (1971), Logoz, Arthur, ed., “BMW 2500/2800”, Auto-Universum 1971 (in German), Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag Internationale Automobil-Parade AG, XIV: 73

Jump up^ Becker, p. 74

Jump up^ www.auto-historia.com.ar Isard Argentina S.A. (Spanish) – accessed 4 December 2008

External links

Company history at RitzSite

Glas history in English

Club of Goggomobil and drivers of Glas cars Dingolfing/Bavaria

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Hotchkiss automobiles & trucks made between 1903 and 1955 in Paris France

Hotchkiss automobiles & trucks made between 1903 and 1955 in Paris France

Hotchkiss logo on GS car.

Hubert and Mme Le Blon at the 1906 Targa Florio driving a Hotchkiss 35 hp

1931 Hotchkiss Sports

Hotchkiss 686 produced from 1936 to 1952

1953 Hotchkiss Grégoire

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Audi

Audi AG

Audi head office in Ingolstadt Type Aktiengesellschaft Traded as FWB: NSU Industry Automotive Predecessor Auto Union GmbH NSU Motorenwerke AG Founded Historic Zwickau, Germany (25 April 1910; 108 years ago) Modern-era Neckarsulm, Germany (1 January 1969; 49 years ago) Founder August Horch Headquarters Ingolstadt, Germany Number of locations 11…

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Buses Bedford VI Bedford SB

Buses Bedford VI Bedford SB

Bedford SB Bedford SB

A preserved Bedford SB from 1959 in the United Kingdom Overview Manufacturer Bedford (General Motors) Body and chassis Doors One behind front axle Floor type Step entrance Chassis Straight Ladder frame Powertrain Engine Bedford Perkins Leyland Capacity 33-41 Seats Transmission 4-speed synchromesh 5-speed Dimensions Length 27ft 6in, later…

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VOLKSWAGEN Automobiles and Vans

VOLKSWAGEN Automobiles and Vans

VOLKSWAGEN cars – vans

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Brockway Motor Company - Trucks and Buses

Brockway Motor Company – Trucks and Buses

Brockway Motor Company

Brockway Bus 1929

1945 Brockway 78

G690 “Treadway” 6 ton 6×6

Brockway Motor Company was a builder of custom heavy-duty trucks in Cortland, New York, from 1912 to 1977. It was founded as Brockway Carriage Works in 1875 by William Brockway. His son George Brockway later turned the carriages into a truck manufacturer in 1909.

During World War II…

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Datsun automobiles in the past till 1986 and jet again since 2013

Datsun automobiles in the past till 1986 and jet again since 2013

DATSUN

Datsun is an automobile brand owned by Nissan. Datsun’s original production run began in 1931. From 1958 to 1986, only vehicles exported by Nissan were identified as Datsun. By 1986 Nissan had phased out the Datsun name, but re-launched it in June 2013 as the brand for low-cost vehicles manufactured for emerging markets.

In 1931, Dat Motorcar Co. chose to name its new small car “Datson”,…

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A Breakdown of Every Formula One Constructor in 2018 A Breakdown of Every Formula One Constructor in 2018 While the world of F1 seems to get further away from the idea of ‘motorcar racing’ with each passing year, there is still a huge amount to draw in enthusiasts to the sport.

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Standard Motor Company

Standard Motor Company Standard-Triumph International Limited

The Union Jack is a standard Formerly called The Standard Motor Company Limited Industry Automobile Fate

1960 purchased by Leyland Motors

1968 swept into British Leyland

Founded 1903 in Coventry, UK Founder Reginald Walter Maudslay Defunct 1968 (British Leyland) Headquarters Canley, Coventry, UKKey people

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DKW car and motorcycles

DKW car and motorcycles

DKW

DKW (Dampf-Kraft-Wagen, English: steam-driven car) is a German car and motorcycle marque. The company and brand is one of the ancestor companies of the modern day Audi company as one of the four companies that formed Auto-Union.

In 1916, Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. That year he attempted to produce a…

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AMBULANCES + HEARSES part XIX on Alphabet beginning with V(olga) till A

AMBULANCES + HEARSES part XIX on Alphabet beginning with V(olga) till A

AMBULANCES + HEARSES part XIX on Alphabet beginning with V(olga) till A

VOLGA

Rostov-on-Don, Russia – May 21,2017:Old car GAZ-22 “Volga” in the parking lot

Volga Ambulances and Hearses

VOLVO

Volvo Ambulances Hearses and ex-Hearses

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AMBULANCES + HEARSES part XVIII on Alphabet beginning with U till Volvo

AMBULANCES + HEARSES part XVIII on Alphabet beginning with U till Volvo

AMBULANCES + HEARSES part XVIII on Alphabet beginning with U till Volvo

UAZ or “Bukhanka”  Ambulances

1918 Unic C9-O Ambulance

All Unic Ambulances or Red Cross Truck

UNIMOG (Mercedes-Benz) Ambulances

2013 Ural-43206 als militärisches Sanitätsfahrzeug

1899 original

1900 French Motorcycle Ambulance

1909 Ambulance

1910 Police Officer Places…