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Vehicle manufacturer
Aston_Martin
Aston Martin is a British sports car manufacturer based in Gaydon (United Kingdom). The company was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford as Bamford & Martin Ltd. In 1915, the first car was built under the brand name Aston-Martin. The brand made the claim to build racing cars for the road and therefore participated intensively in the car racing.
BMW / EMW
In 1928, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG acquired the Eisenach vehicle factory founded in 1896. With the division of Germany after World War II, the strange situation arose that BMWs were now produced in both western and eastern Germany. In 1951, BMW in Munich passed a court order that no vehicles should be manufactured in Eisenach for export to western countries under the BMW logo. From 1 July 1952, the cars from Eisenach were therefore called EMW, and instead of the blue and white, they bore a red and white emblem.
Cisitalia
Cisitalia was an Italian automaker. It was founded in 1946 and dissolved in 1964. The company was one of the first companies that produced sports cars in the immediate postwar period, from which later road vehicles were derived. The cars still have an excellent reputation, which derives on the one hand from the sporting successes, on the other hand from the fact that with Ferdinand Porsche, Carlo Abarth and some other engineers temporary top-class staff was involved in the project.
Cord / Duesenberg / Auburn
The brothers Friedrich and August Düsenberg were born in Lemgo. They founded the Düsenberg Motor Company (DMC) in 1913 in St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition to successes in Indianapolis a Duesenberg set a world record at 251 km / h in 1920; In 1921, a Duesenberg won the Grand Prix of France in Le Mans. From 1921, the Duesenberg Model A was built as a production vehicle. In 1926, Errett Lobban Cord acquired the company; he had already bought the Auburn Automobile Company two years earlier.
DeSoto
Walter P. Chrysler etsablished the brand DeSoto on May 6, 1928. The first DeSoto automobile was introduced to the public on August 6, 1928. The car manufacturer was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto who discovered the Mississippi River in 1541. After about 2 million produced cars, 1961 would be the last model year for manufacturing the DeSoto nameplate.
Facel Vega
Facel was a French automobile manufacturer from 1954 to 1964, created by Jean Daninos, who used to work for Citroën on the Traction Avant (deutsch „Frontantrieb“). The company's first model, the Vega (named after the star), was introduced at the 1954 Paris Auto Show and instantly won acclaim from around the world. The Facel Vegas were expensive and highly exclusive, but they sold well. Crowned heads, actors, politicians and wealthy businessmen ordered a new car from 19, Avenue Georges V in Paris, some even ordering several models over the years. Over time, the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Moroccan King Hassan II, Ava Gardner, Stirling Moss and Ringo Starr were among Facel's customers. Despite its initial success, the company failed after the debut of the mechanically troubled Facellia model. Today, Facel Vegas are cherished for their unique character by car enthusiasts all over the world.
Gräf & Stift
Gräf & Stift was an Austrian car manufacturer founded in 1904 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Carl Gräf and the businessman and investor Wilhelm Stift senior.
IFA
The abbreviation IFA stands for ‘Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau’, an association of vehicle construction companies in the GDR, which was under the control of the Ministry for General Machinery, Agricultural Machinery and Vehicle Construction.
Jeep
Jeep is an American car brand that today belongs to Stellantis and mainly produces off-road vehicles. The origin of the word ‘Jeep’ is not clear. The most obvious theory is the derivation from the abbreviation GP for 'General Purpose'.
Jensen Motors
Jensen Motors was a car manufacturer from West Bromwich in Great Britain that existed from 1935 to 1976. The successor company Jensen Parts and Service continued to produce sports cars on a very small scale from 1983 to 1992.
Steyr
Steyr is an Austrian automotive group that is still active today. Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG was formed in 1934 through the merger of Steyr-Werke and Austro-Daimler-Puchwerke. There is a Steyr car museum in Strechau Castle (Lassing in Styria).
Tatra
There are not many car manufacturers whose roots go back as far as TATRA. The TATRA brand first appeared in 1919 on vehicles from Koprivnice, on the TL 4 lorry after load and brake tests were carried out in the Tatra Mountains. TATRA was then created in 1924 through the merger of the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft (founded in 1850) with the Ringhoffer AG wagon factory in Prague-Smíchov (Czech Republic). The name TATRA was registered as a trade mark in 1934. TATRA is one of the four oldest existing manufacturers of motor vehicles in the world. Today, TATRA belongs to the Czechoslovak Group.
Zuendapp
Zündapp was one of the major German motorbike manufacturers in the period from 1921 to 1984 and part of the large Nuremberg motorbike industry. Several attempts were made to enter the automobile manufacturing business. The best-known car was the Zündapp Janus. But there were some highly interesting prototypes too. None of them made it into series production. Zündapp was dissolved in 1984.