Egg (car)

Egg & Egli was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles.

Company History

The designer Rudolf Egg and his partner Egli founded in 1896 in Zurich, the car factory Zurich Egg & Egli.

1904 production ended when Rudolf Egg left the company to start the motor car factory Excelsior.

Rolling stock

Rudolf Egg designed his first car in 1893, which went into series production in 1896. It was a tricycle, in which the individual wheel was back. It was equipped with a single-cylinder engine installation of De Dion -Bouton, who made ​​3 hp. 1899 ended the production of the tricycle at Egg & Egli. Between 1899 and 1904 some copies of a four-wheeled automobile whose engine was mounted in the rear emerged.

A vehicle of this make is to visit the castle in Grandson Grandson.

License production of the tricycle

  • Bächtold & Co Steckborn produced the tricycle in 1898 under license.
  • Zurich Patent Motor Car Factory Rapid from Zurich produced the tricycle in 1899 under license.
  • J. Weber & Co from Uster near Zurich produced the tricycle from 1899 to 1900 under license.
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