Mors (automobile)

Automobiles Mors was a French company from Paris, cars and racing cars produced. The racing car made ​​around the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century with great success.

Company History

Mr. Mirand founded a company in 1851 in the Rue Saint -Martin in Paris for the production of artificial flowers. Therefore, he used paper and wire. 1874, Louis Mors the company. Later engines emerged. In 1895 with the help of Henri Brasier automobile production. The company was now Société d' Electricité et d' Automobiles Mors. In 1908 it was renamed Société Nouvelle d' Automobiles Mors. The company went 1925 Citroën over. Between 1941 and 1943 a few electric cars have originated in a small branch of the company.

Rolling stock

A Mors Z was on August 5, 1902, the first car with an internal combustion engine, which snatched the electric cars and steam car land speed record.

The Frenchman Émile Mors came in 1897 when racing Marseille -La Turbie in 1897 for the first time with his racing cars.

Camille Jenatzy began his racing career on Mors, he was seventh in the Tour de France Automobile 1899.

In 1898 Levegh drove for the team. Was it initially inferior to the Panhard & Levassor rivals, so Mors in 1900 celebrated a convincing victory in the Paris- Toulouse- Paris.

With Henri Fournier's victory at Paris-Berlin in 1901 and Fernand Gabriel's success at the broken race Paris-Madrid 1903, the team was able to win two major races in the motorsport early days.

Charles Stewart Rolls sold the French vehicles in the UK and he succeeded in a race in the Phoenix Park in Dublin in 1903, a short-term world record at 93 miles per hour (150 km / h) on a Mors.

Front car a Mors race car of 1906

Mors Tonneau Ferme Type N 1910 at the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf

Mors 1913

Mors electric car from 1914 to 1920

Mors 30hp torpédo 1922

Mors 1925

After the relegation of the team began the new 12.8 - liter car failed in the GP of France 1908. A planned comeback a few years later was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War.

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