Car history

Soon it came the time in Jaguar history when William Lyons was no more content to merely build bodies on other people's chassis. This constrained his creative desires and equally restricted him to products which were stolid rather than sporting. If Lyons and Walmsley were to throw off these ...
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To trace the birth of Jaguar history, one is to go back to the northern seaside town of Blackpool. where a young motorcycle enthusiast by the name of Bill Lyons, not yet 21 years of age, met William Walmsley, who was building a rather stylish sidecar which he was attaching to reconditioned motor ...
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1970 After fourteen years of manufacturing, when Volvo history had been numbered 667,323 cars, Volvo Amazon production was phased out at the beginning of the summer. The Volvo Amazon was the best example of Volvo philosophy, consisting of production reliability, capability to be improved; Volvo ...
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Essential step in BMW history came in 1994 the purchase at $2.3 billion of German marques of Rover Group as well as of Britain-scale biggest factory producing cars of Rover, land Rover and MG. With that deal BMW gained necessary experience and examples of midget and off-roader class models. 1995 ...
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Carl Rapp and Gustav Otto being in spite of all prohibitions still faithful and devoted to their love towards motors decided to start the way from zero level. The first post-war model issued by BMW came 1-cylinder R24 motorcycle assembled handicraft in work shops nearly primitively. In 1951 ...
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To study Opel industry history one should turn to its founder Adam Opel. Adam Opel was born on May 9, 1837 in Russelsheim. He studied with his father (a locksmith) till the age of 20, when he went to work as an apprentice locksmith to Belgium, in Liege, Brussels, and Paris. While in Paris (1858), ...
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Cars under Loutzky brandmark were constructed by the Russian engineer Boris Grigoryevich Loutzky. In 1897 he set up “Gesellschaft fuer Automobilwagenbau System Loutzky” automotive company in Berlin. His first cars were shown off at the Berlin Motor Show in 1899. These were light-duty vehicles with ...
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Ford Motor Company – American Automobile Company specializing in manufacturing passenger cars of “Ford”, “Mercury”, “Mercury” marques, as well as trucks and farm machinery. In addition Ford Company owns Jaguar automobile company. Ford is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, right not far from ...
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In 1966 Citroen history was marked by one more important model construction as jointly with German NSU company Citroen issues model with Wankel engine. In 1965 Citroen merged into “Panhar Levassor” and in 1976 became a component part of Peugeot Concern preserving the rights of self-sufficient ...
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Citroen, French automobile company dealing with manufacturing cars and forming “Peugeot” Corporation. The Citroen history was commenced in 1919 by Andre Citroen as he founded “Societe anonyme Andre Citroen” aimed at producing inexpensive cars. In fact, the first model in Citroen history became ...
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