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Austria

  • Achleitner
  • Alba
    Alba (1907 automobile)
    The Alba was an Austrian automobile built in Trieste from 1907 to 1908. The company's first cars, built in a 20,000 square metre factory, had pair-cast 40-45hp engines of 6872cc....

     (1907-1908)
  • Austro
    Austro (automobile)
    The Austro was made in Austria from 1913 to 1914. It was one of few cyclecars produced in Central Europe. Powered by a 6 horsepower NSU engine, it had a 4-speed gearbox and double chain final drive. It had an independent front suspension, using sliding pillars on the lines of the Morgan...

     (1913-1914)
  • Austro-Daimler
    Austro-Daimler
    Austro-Daimler was an Austrian automaker company, from 1899 until 1934. It was subsidiary of the German Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft .-Early history:...

     (1899-1934)
  • Austro-Fiat (1907-1936)
  • Austro-Rumpler (1920-1922)
  • Austro-Tatra
    Austro-Tatra
    The Austro-Tatra was a car made by Austro-Tatra-Werke, Vienna, from 1934 to 1948.After World War I and the subdivision of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the administration, and factory , of the Nesselsdorf, later Tatra, company, were divided by a new frontier and border...

     (1934-1948)
  • Avis (1921-1928)
  • Baja (1920-1925)
  • Braun (1900-1907)
  • Celeritas (1901-1903)
  • Custoca
    Custoca
    Custoca , was a low-volume Austrian car manufacturer established by Gerhard Höller in 1966 to build and sell kit cars. Models included the Ford GT40-inspired Hurrycane introduced in 1971, the Lamborghini-like Strato, and, beginning in 1972, a range of dune buggies based on the popular Volkswagen...

     (1970-1986)
  • Denzel
    Denzel (automobile)
    The Denzel automobile was an early, but largely unremembered, competitor to Porsche in Vienna Austria beginning in 1948. Although some automobile historians have relegated this marque to the category of a builder of "specials", the Denzel was manufactured for approximately 7–8 years after 5 years...

     (1948-1960)
  • ESA (1920-1926)
  • Felber
    Felber Autoroller
    The Felber Autoroller T 400 was a three-wheeled microcar with a rear-mounted 398 cc Rotax two cylinder, two stroke engine. The cars had an unusual seating arrangement, with a small child-sized seat behind the driver on the left and a conventional passenger seat diagonally behind and to the...

     (1952-1954)
  • Gloriette (1932-1934)
  • Gloria (1934-1938)
  • Gräf & Stift
    Gräf & Stift
    Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. Founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm Stift...

     (1907-1938)
  • Grofri
    Grofri
    Grofri was the brand of cars manufactured in Austria from 1924 to 1927 under the licence of the French Amilcar. SV 903 cc or 1074 cc four-cylinder engines were used in these sporting cyclecars. Racing versions were also made, some of them with Roots superchargers....

     (1921-1927)
  • Hoffmann & Czerny (1907)
  • Jamos (1964)
  • Kainz (1900-1901)
  • KAN (1911-1914)
  • Kronos (1905-1907)
  • KTM
    KTM
    KTM Sportmotorcycle AG is an Austrian motorcycle, bicycle and moped manufacturer.The company was founded in 1934 by engineer Hans Trunkenpolz in Mattighofen. It started out as a metal working shop and was named Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen...

  • Leesdorfer (1898-1901)
  • Libelle
    Libelle (microcar)
    right|thumb|1954 LibelleThe Libelle was an Austrian three-wheeled microcar built in Innsbruck in the beginning of the 1950s. 50 are believed to have been built. The only known survivor is owned by the RRR scooter museum in Eggenburg, Austria....

     (1952-1955)
  • Linett (1921-1928)
  • Linser (1906-1908)
  • Lohner-Porsche (1896-1906)
  • Magna Steyr
    Magna Steyr
    Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG is an automobile manufacturer based in Oberwaltersdorf, Austria, with its primary manufacturing location in Graz...

  • Möve
    Möve
    right|thumb|1954 Felber MöveThe Möve 101 was a microcar with egg-shaped coupé bodywork based on a Felber Autoroller chassis. Ten cars were built in Vienna by a specialist coachbuilding company Hofmann & Moldrich in 1953....

     (1953)
  • ÖAF
    ÖAF
    ÖAF is an initialism for Österreichische Automobil-Fabrik, previously known as Österreichische Austro-Fiat, an Austrian car and truck manufacturer.-Austro-Fiat:...

  • Perfekt (1909-1914)
  • Perl (1921-1926; 1951-1952)
  • Puch
    Puch
    Puch is a manufacturing company located in Graz, Austria. The company was founded in 1889 by the industrialist Johann Puch and produced automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles.-Pre 1919:...

     (1906-1925)
  • Spitz (1902-1906)
  • Steyr (1920-1941; 1953-1977)
  • Steyr-Daimler-Puch
    Steyr-Daimler-Puch
    Steyr-Daimler-Puch was a large manufacturing conglomerate based in Steyr, Austria, which was broken up in stages between 1987 and 2001. The component parts and operations continued to exist under separate ownership and new names.-History:...

     (1864-1990)
  • Thein & Goldberger (1907-1908)
  • Theyer Rothmund (1900)
  • Tomaszo (1977-c.1995)
  • U-Wagen (1919-1923)
  • WAF (1911-1925)
  • Wyner (1903-1908)

Belgium

  • ABC
  • ADK
    ADK (automobile)
    The ADK was a Belgian automobile manufactured between 1923 and 1930 by Automobiles de Kuyper SA of Anderlecht, Brussels. The company did not make their own engines, these were always bought from other manufacturers....

     (1923-1930)
  • Alatac
    Alatac
    The Alatac was an automobile built by Automobiles Catala of Braine-le-Comte, Belgium, from 1913 to 1914. Two models were made, one being a 9/12CV and the other 12/16CV, both having four cylinder, sidevalve monobloc engines. They had a conventional chassis, an attractive V-radiator, and detachable...

     (1913-1914)
  • Alfa Legia (1914-1921)
  • Altona (1938-1946)
  • ALP
    ALP (automobile)
    The ALP was a Belgian automobile built in 1920 by Automobiles Leroux-Pisart of Brussels. It was a 2121cc light car designed by the former chief engineer of Métallurgique....

     (1920)
  • AMA (1913-1914)
  • Antoine
    Antoine (automobile)
    The Antoine was a Belgian automobile manufactured by Victor Antoine of Liège, an engine manufacturer, from 1900 to 1903. At least two models were offered. One was a voiturette. The other, offered in 1903, was a 15/25 hp car....

     (1900-1905)
  • APAL
    Apal
    Apal is a small scale automobile company originally from Belgium. It is now based in Germany.-Phase 1 -APAL - s.à.r.l. Application Polyester Armé de Liège :...

     (1964-1998)
  • Aquila (1900-1903)
  • ATA (1914)
  • Astra
    Astra (1930 automobile)
    The Astra was made by Automobiles Astra, Liege, Belgium in 1930. It is considered a textbook example of car design piracy, as the 1,100cc S.C.A.P.-engined car that made its debut at the 1930 Brussels Motor Show was an almost exact copy of the Tracta. It never went into production, and the projected...

     (1930)
  • Auto-Mixte
    Auto-Mixte
    Auto-Mixte build cars between 1906 and 1912 using a hybrid-technology under license from Pieper, after Henri Pieper died. From 1912 to 1914 the cars are made as Pescatore, named after the owner. The outbreak of World War I marks the end of the car. The workshop was eventually taken over by...

     (1905-1912)
  • Bastin (1907-1909)
  • Baudouin (1904-1906)
  • Belga (1920-1921)
  • Belga Rise (1928-1937)
  • Belgica (1899-1909)
  • Bovy (1908-1914)
  • CAP (1914)
  • Claeys-Flandria (1953-1954, 1979-1980)
  • d'Aoust (1912-1927)
  • Dasse (1894-1924)
  • De Cosmo (1903-1908)
  • Delecroix
    Delecroix
    The Delecroix was a Belgian automobile. First build in 1897, but commercialised in 1898, it was a light car with a rear-mounted engine and a suspension-less tubular frame....

     (1899)
  • Delin (1899-1901)
  • Dechamps (1899-1906)
  • De Wandre
    De Wandre
    The De Wandre was a Belgian automobile manufactured around 1923. Called "the elegant spider", it was a wire-wheeled sports car using the chassis and running gear of the Model T Ford....

     (c. 1923)
  • Direct (1904-1905)
  • Edran
    Edran
    Edran is a Belgian automobile manufacturer. The company was founded in 1984 by André Hanjoul. The first car to be displayed in public was the Edran Spyder MK I at the 1994 Brussels Motor Show...

     (1984-present)
  • Elgé (1912-1914)
  • Emmel (1925-1926)
  • Escol (1926-1929)
  • Excelsior
    Compagnie Nationale Excelsior
    Compagnie Nationale Excelsior, more simply known as Excelsior, was a Belgian car manufacturer established by Arthus de Coninck in Brussels in 1903, The company first started to manufacture cars in 1904....

     (1901-1932)
  • FAB (1912-1914)
  • FD (1923-1929)
  • FIF (1909-1914)
  • Flaid
    Flaid
    The Flaid was a Belgian automobile manufactured from 1920 until 1921 in Liège. A 10/12 hp light car with 1095 cc four cylinder engine, it was designed for export to Britain. A stand was booked at the 1920 British Motor Show but the car never appeared....

     (1920-1921)
  • FN (1899-1939)
  • Fondu (1906-1912)
  • Frenay (1914)
  • Germain (1897-1917)
  • Gillet
    Gillet
    Gillet is a Belgian automobile manufacturer, started in 1994 by former racing driver Tony Gillet. The company produces the Vertigo sports coupé, an ultra-lightweight 'bespoke' and hand-built sportscar...

     (1994-present)
  • Impéria
    Imperia
    Imperia may be:* Imperia , an Italian city* Province of Imperia, the Italian province of the above city of Imperia* IMPERIA, a vodka produced by Russian Standard* Imperia , a statue in Constance, Germany...

     (1906-1948)
  • Imperia-Abadal
  • Jeecy-Vea
    Jeecy-Vea
    The Jeecy-Vea was a Belgian automobile manufactured from 1925 until 1926 by a company more famous for its motor cycles. A limited-production light car, it was manufactured by a motorcycle factory in Brussels, and featured a 750 cc Coventry-Climax flat-twin engine. Tourer and coupé bodied...

     (1925-1926)
  • Jenatzy (1895-1905)
  • Juwel
    Juwel
    The Juwel was a Belgian automobile manufactured from 1923 until 1927 in Waremme by Société des Automobiles Juwel. Initial plans called for a mass-produced 1100 cc four cylinder tourer and two models were shown at the 1922 Brussels Motor Show. Bodies offered included open 2 and 4 seat cars, a...

     (1923-1928)
  • Kleinstwagen (1952)
  • Knap (1898-1909)
  • L&B
  • Linon (1900-1914)
  • Mathieu (1902-1906)
  • Mathomobile (1980-c.1984)
  • Méan (1964-1974)
  • Meeussen
    Meeussen
    Meeussen is a former Belgian car manufacturer. The brothers Meeussen were car manufacturers between 1955 and 1972. They built a van from a VW Beetle.- External links :*...

     (1955-1972)
  • Métallurgique
    Métallurgique
    Métallurgique were cars made by SA L'Auto Métallurgique, Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium between 1898 and 1928. Before making cars, the company had made railway locomotives and rolling stock.-Production:...

     (1898-1928)
  • Miesse/Auto-Miesse (1896-1926)
  • Minerva (1902-1939)
  • Moustique (1925-1927)
  • Nagant
    Nagant
    The firm Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant was established in 1859 in Liège, Belgium, to manufacture firearms.Émile and Léon Nagant were brothers, and probably best known for their important contributions to the design of the Mosin-Nagant Russian service rifle, adopted in 1891...

     (1900-1927/8)
  • Nova (1914)
  • Pescarolo (1912-1914)
  • Peterill (1899)
  • Pieper
    Pieper
    Pieper was a carmaker in Belgium.In 1900, Henri Pieper of Germany introduced a hybrid vehicle with an electric motor/generator, batteries, and a small gasoline engine. It used the electric motor to charge its batteries at cruise speed and used both motors to accelerate or climb a hill...

     (1899-1912)
  • Pipe
    Pipe (car)
    Pipe was a Belgian automobile manufacturer founded by the brothers Alfred and Victor Goldschmidt. The company was also known as 'Compagnie Belge de Construction Automobiles'....

     (1898-1914)
  • PLM (1954-1955)
  • P-M (1922-1924)
  • Radar (1957-1960)
  • Ranger
    Ranger (GM)
    The Ranger was a General Motors car brand that lasted from 1968 to 1976. The brand was used in conjunction with two markets, an automobile marketed as "South Africa's Own Car", built in Port Elizabeth from 1968 to 1973, and another model range that was produced from 1970 to 1976 in Antwerp,...

     (1970-1976)
  • Royal Star (1904-1910)
  • Rumpf (1899)
  • SAVA (1910-1923)
  • SCH 1927-1928)
  • SOMEA (1921-1922)
  • Speedsport (1924-1927)
  • Springuel
    Springuel
    The Springuel was a Belgian automobile manufactured from 1907 until 1912. The company called Societe Anonyme Automobiles des Springuel was founded by Jules Springuel-Wilmotte in Huy. It was a 24 hp pair-cast four, built in small numbers. The company merged with Impéria in 1912. The 1911 12HP won...

     (1907-1914)
  • Taunton (1914-1922)
  • Turner-Miesse (1902-1913)
  • TVD (1920-1925)
  • Vincke (1895-1905)
  • Vivinus
    Vivinus
    Vivinus cars were made by Ateliers Vivinus S.A. of Schaerbeek, Brussels .The owner, Alexis Vivinus , had made bicycles in the 1890s and become an importer of Benz. From 1895 he started to make his own range of cars. These were belt-driven voiturette models with a 785 cc single-cylinder engine and...

     (1899-1914)
  • Wilford (1897-1901)
  • Zelensis (1958-1962)

Denmark

  • Alfgang
    Alfgang
    The Alfgang was a short-lived Danish automobile, manufactured in Silkeborg by one M. Alfgang from 1912 to 1914. Only two cars were built before World War I stopped production. The cars used French-built engines from an unknown company....

     (1912-1914)
  • Anglo-Dane
    Anglo-Dane
    The Anglo-Dane was a Danish automobile manufactured by H. C. Fredriksen of Copenhagen from 1902 to 1917. Fredriksen began by building bicycles in the 1890s; for these he used British parts - hence the name....

     (1902-1917)
  • Brems
    Brems (car)
    Brems was the brand name of a Danish automobile with one-cylinder engine, built between 1900 and 1907. The company was based in Viborg and built only a small number of cars....

     (1900-1904)
  • Bukh & Gry
    Bukh & Gry
    The Bukh & Gry was a Danish automobile manufactured in 1904. Its creators, Bukh and Gry, had both worked in the American automotive industry; together they built only one car, manufactured at Horve and shown at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen in 1905. This model had a water-cooled 10/12 hp...

     (1904-1905)
  • Bünger (1947-1949)
  • Dana
    Dana (car)
    Dana was the brand name of a car built by Hakon Olsen, who had created the Maskinfabriken Dana in Copenhagen, Denmark. The car had a Peugeot air-cooled 6 hp engine and was built between 1908 and 1914 with minor modifications. The end of its production has been attributed to different company...

     (c.1908-1914)
  • Dansk
    Dansk (automobile)
    Dansk was the brand name of cars built by Dansk Automobil & Cyclefabrik in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 1901 and 1907. The company had been a bicycle repair shop before venturing into automobile construction. It built three- and four-wheel light cars with German Cudell engines...

     (1901-1908)
  • DISA
  • DK
    DK (car)
    The DK was a Danish automobile built as a prototype by S.A. Mathiesen in 1950. It was supposed to combine American comfort with European dimensions and economy. It featured a chassisless Aluminum body, a Heinkel engine and ZF gearbox. It remained a prototype, but in 1953 a new, modified version was...

     (1950)
  • Ellemobil
    Ellemobil
    Ellemobil was a car type constructed by the Danish inventor Jacob Ellehammer and built between 1909 and 1913. The car was 2-seater with 3-cylinder air-cooled engine. Jacob Ellehammer became famous mostly as an aviation pioneer....

     (1909-1913)
  • Gideon (1913-1920)
  • Haargaard
  • Hammel
    Hammel (automobile)
    This car from Denmark, built by Urban Johansen und Albert F. Hammel, is connected with some controversy regarding its exact year of construction. One claim is that it was introduced in 1886, making it one of the very first motorcars in the world. Other sources mention the years between 1887 and...

  • Houlberg
    Houlberg (car)
    Houlberg was the name of a light touring car built by Christian Houlberg in Odense, Denmark, between 1913 and 1920. The car had a 4-cylinder Ballot engine. A modified, "sports" version was also offered....

     (c.1913-1921)
  • Kewet
    Kewet
    Kewet was the brand name of an battery electric vehicle. Since 2007, it has been manufactured under the name Buddy by ElbilNorge AS in Oslo, Norway.-History:...

     (1992-present)
  • Sommer (1971; 1982-c.1986)
  • Thrige
    Thrige (automobile)
    The Thrige was a Danish automobile manufactured in Odense between 1911 to 1917 by the Thomas B. Thrige company .The company was founded in 1894 and made electric motors....

     (1911-1918)
  • Zenvo
    Zenvo
    Zenvo or Zenvo Automotive is a Danish sports car company located near Viby Sjælland on the Danish island of Zealand. It is managed by Jesper Jensen, the founder and financier, and Troels Vollertsen. The name 'Zenvo' is derived from a combination of their names.-History:Zenvo Automotive was founded...


Finland

  • Elcat
    Elcat
    ELCAT is an battery electric vehicle manufacturer based in Järvenpää, Finland.Elcat Automotive was owned by an electricity producer called Fortum until production decreases in the early 21st century. Elcat began working in 1974 to design electric cars for Nordic climate...

  • Finlandia
    Finlandia (car)
    Finlandia was the brand name of cars built in Finland between 1922 and 1924 by P.J.Heikkilä in Helsinki. Only four were built using U.S. engines of unknown make. Realizing that this venture was not profitable, Heikkilä abandoned it and returned to bus body manufacture....

     (1922-1924)
  • Korvensuu
    Korvensuu (car)
    Korvensuu was the name of a car constructed in Finland by Frans Lindström, owner of a small machine factory. The car was not intended for production, but rather as an example of his company’s abilities. Design and construction was done during the years 1912-1913 . Most of the car parts were locally...

     (1912-1913)
  • RaceAbout
  • Talbot
    Talbot
    Talbot was an automobile marque that existed from 1903 to 1986, with a hiatus from 1960 to 1978, under a number of different owners, latterly under Peugeot...

  • Teijo
  • Valmet
    Valmet
    ' was a Finnish state-owned conglomerate. Valmet was formed in 1951, when the state of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union under one company...

  • Veemax
  • Wiima (1956 - 1958)

Greece

  • Alta
    Alta (vehicles)
    Alta was a Greek manufacturer of light and heavier three-wheeler trucks, motorcycles and passenger cars. Production of motorcycles and three-wheeler trucks with Sachs 50cc engines started in its first factory in Athens in 1962. The 50S motorcycle model was known for its reliability...

     (1968-1978)
  • Attica
    Attica (automobiles)
    Attica was a brand name of vehicles produced by Bioplastic S.A., a company created in Moschato, Athens by Georgios Dimitriadis, a figure in Greek automotive history....

     (1958-1972)
  • Autokinitoviomihania Ellados
    Autokinitoviomihania Ellados
    Autokinitoviomihania Ellados was founded in Athens in 1975 by a group of Greek businessmen, including the owners of the company importing Fiat in Greece.- History :...

     (1975-1984)
  • Automeccanica
    Automeccanica
    Automeccanica was a Greek automobile producing company. Founded in 1979, it was one of the companies that produced the "passenger-utility" type of vehicle popular in Greece at the time for tax categorization reasons...

     (1980-1995)
  • Balkania
    Balkania (trade name)
    Balkania was the trade name of 'K. Zacharopoulos A.B.E.E.' a Greek industrial and trading company based in Athens that produced 4x4 jeep-type vehicles and 4x4 trucks. Since 1945, K. Zacharopoulos had been involved in vehicle repair and rebuilding. The Balkania company was founded in 1954 and since...

     (1975-1995)
  • BET
    Biotechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon
    Biotechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon , or BET, was a small vehicle manufacturer founded in Athens by Petros Konstantinou. It was one of several manufacturers - the first appearing in the early 1940s - that converted BMW or other motorcycles into light utility three-wheelers...

     (1965-1975)
  • C.AR
    C.AR (automobiles)
    C.AR was a Greek automotive company, founded in 1970. Originally it was called ARCO, both names being formed from the name of its founder, Constantinos Argyriadis, an engineer and architect...

     (1970-1992)
  • DIM
    DIM (automobiles)
    .DIM Motor Company, a Greek automobile maker, was created by Georgios Dimitriadis as a successor to his earlier company, Bioplastic S.A., which had produced the Attica automobile. The DIM represented one more effort by Mr. Dimitriadis to design and develop a modern car entirely by his company's own...

     (1977-1982)
  • ELBO
    ELBO
    ELBO , is a Greek vehicle manufacturer based in Thessaloniki...

     (1973-present)
  • Enfield
    Enfield Automotive
    Enfield Automotive was an electric car manufacturer founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Under the ownership of Greek millionaire Giannis Goulandris, production was moved to the Greek isle of Syros during the oil crisis of 1973.-Enfield 465:...

     (1973-1976)
  • Grezda
    Emporiki Autokiniton
    Emporiki Autokiniton was a major Greek automobile trading and industrial company...

     (1969-1985)
  • Hercules
    Hercules (vehicles)
    Hercules was a Greek manufacturer of agricultural machinery based in Kerkyra . It also produced light vehicles categorized as "farm equipment" according to Greek law, including light all-terrain vehicles. The latter used Namco parts and Mitsubishi, Kubota and Ruggerini engines...

     (1980-1983)
  • MAVA-Renault
    MAVA-Renault
    MAVA Company was the Greek importer of Renault automobiles. In 1979, it decided to enter the car-production business introducing a passenger-utility car, a type then very popular in Greece for tax cetagorization reasons...

     (1979-1985)
  • MEBEA
    MEBEA
    MEBEA was an important Greek vehicle manufacturer, producer of light trucks, passenger automobiles, motorcycles, motorbike engines, agricultural machinery and bicycles....

     (1960-1983)
  • Namco
    Namco (automobiles)
    NAMCO is a Greek vehicle manufacturer, a creation of the Kontogouris Brothers who have been in the automotive industry business since the 1950s.- History :...

     (1973-present)
  • Neorion
    Neorion
    Neorion is one of the oldest Greek heavy industries, located in Ermoupolis, on the Greek island of Syros. Today, it is one of the few remaining major industrial corporations in that picturesque and nostalgic island town that used to be the industrial and commercial heart of Greece, before being...

     (1974-1975)
  • Pan-Car
    Pan-Car
    Pan-Car was a Greek producer of automobiles and light trucks, operating between 1968 and 1994. As was often the case in Greece, its name comes from that of its founder, Panayiotis Caravisopoulos. In 1968 it was one of many Greek companies that produced three-wheeler trucks, using Volkswagen engines...

     (1968-1994)
  • Replicar Hellas (2007- )
  • Scavas
    Scavas
    Scavas is the name of sports cars designed by Greek engineer Vassilios Scavas that were never industrially produced.After gaining experience from working at Biamax, Scavas started his first car design in 1969, undertaking the entire vehicle development. Scavas 1, a sports car with a 1200cc NSU...

     (1973-1992)
  • Styl Kar
    Styl Kar
    STYL KAR was named after its founder, the very talented engineer Stylianos Karakatsanis. Its entire history is representative of a large number of Greek companies who were engaged in the construction of simple utility vehicles.- Evolution of the Greek three-wheel truck :The first transformations...

     (1979)
  • Tangalakis
    Tangalakis-Temax
    TEMAX is today the leading Greek manufacturer of fire-fighting vehicles, while under its previous name, Tangalakis, it has been one of the most historic bus manufacturers in that country.- History :...

     (1935-1939)
  • Theologou
    Theologou
    Theologou was one of the first vehicle manufacturers in Greece. It was created by Nikos Theologou, a Greek mechanic who had previously lived and worked in the US, and founded this company after he returned to Athens, Greece...

     (1918-1926)
  • Tropical
    Tropical (vehicles)
    Tropical is a Greek manufacturer involved in machinery and vehicle development and production. Its history is characteristic of a company which has made significant efforts to evolve in a country that effectively forbids production of locally developed passenger cars.-History:Alfa was founded in...

     (1992- )
  • Tzen (1963-1972)

Ireland

  • Alesbury
    Alesbury
    The Alesbury was an Irish automobile. It was powered by an 8/10hp Stevens-Duryea engine and had solid tires. The car was exhibited in Dublin in 1907, but manufacture lasted only from then until 1908.-References:...

     (1907-1908)
  • Shamrock
    Shamrock (car)
    The Shamrock was a car produced in Ireland for a brief period during the late 1950s.The business was established by an American businessmen,James F. Conway and William K Curtis in Tralee, Co. Kerry, but was moved to Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, before production began...

     (1959)
  • Thomond (1925-1929)
  • TMC Costin
    TMC Costin
    The TMC Costin was a lightweight sports car built from 1983 to 1987 at the Thompson Motor Company in Wexford, Ireland.It was designed by the aerodynamicist and Marcos founder Frank Costin and was intended to be an Irish-made rival to Lotus Seven-inspired cars as manufactured by companies such as...

     (1983-1987)

Netherlands

  • Aerts/Neerlandia
    Aerts
    The Aerts was a Dutch automobile manufactured in 1899; a small number of cars are known to have been built at Dongen, but little else seems to be known about the marque....

     (1899)
  • Altena
    Altena (automobile)
    The Altena was a Dutch motorcycle and automobile made by NV Haarlemsche Automobiel & Motorrijwielfabriek, based in Haarlem-Heemstede from 1900 to 1906.The first car built was powered by a 3.5 hp De Dion single-cylinder powerplant...

     (1900-1906)
  • Anderheggen
    Anderheggen
    The Anderheggen was a Dutch automobile; the short-lived light 4hp four-seater vis-à-vis, powered by a water-cooled Abeille engine, was manufactured in Amsterdam from 1899 to 1902. Its transmission was a flat belt from the engine to a system of fast and loose pulleys giving two speeds...

     (1899-1902)
  • Autolette (1905-1906)
  • Bij't Vuur
    Bij't Vuur
    The Bij 't Vuur was a Dutch automobile manufactured by C. Bij 't Vuur in Arnhem from 1902 until 1906. The name means something like "Near to the fire"....

     (1902-1906)
  • Burgers (1898-1906)
  • Burton
    Burton car
    The Burton is a Dutch sports car based on French 2CV technology. The Burton is an open, nostalgic-looking sports car built on the chassis of the 2CV with a modern glassfibre bodykit. The car can be built as an open two seater, or with a hardtop with gull-wing doors or with a custom made...

     (198?-present)
  • Carver
    Carver (automobile)
    The Carver is a tilting three wheeled vehicle using an automatic balancing technology to balance the passenger compartment under all conditions. The first commercial Carver product, the Carver One, was designed to seat two people, and manufactured and distributed by Carver Europe in the Netherlands...

     (2006-present)
  • Charon (1985-present)
  • DAF
    DAF Trucks
    DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of PACCAR. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium...

     (1958-1975)
  • Donkervoort
    Donkervoort
    Donkervoort Automobielen BV is a manufacturer of authentic hand-built and ultra light weight sports cars based in Lelystad in The Netherlands. This car brand was founded in 1978 by Joop Donkervoort....

     (1978-present)

  • Econoom
    Econoom
    The Econoom was a Dutch automobile manufactured from 1913 until 1915. Only 85 vehicles, all light cars, were produced by the Amsterdam firm of Hautekeet & Van Asselt; they used Ballot engines and a MAB chassis, all imported from France....

     (1913-1915)
  • Entrop
    Entrop
    The Entrop was a Dutch automobile manufactured by a cycle company in 's-Gravenmoer in 1909. The firm produced over 1500 bicycles, but only four cars....

     (1909)
  • Eysink
    Eysink
    The Eysink was a Dutch automobile manufactured from 1903 until 1919.The Eysink brothers from Amersfoort, who created the marque, started out manufacturing bicycles. In 1897 they built their first automobile. However, the brothers did not begin production in earnest until 1903 when they built a...

     (1903-1919)
  • Gatso (1948-1950)
  • Gelria (1899-1906)
  • Groninger (1898-1899)
  • Hansan (1958)
  • Hillen
    Hillen
    The Hillen was a Dutch automobile manufactured in Jutphaas sometime around 1913; nothing further is known about the marque....

     (c. 1913)
  • Huet Brothers  (2008)
  • Le Patron
    Le Patron
    BonPatron is a website that serves as a French spelling and grammar checker. Although originally designed with a strong pedagogical focus for students learning French, it is now widely used by both Francophones and non-Francophones...

     (199?-present)
  • Max (1988-1990)

  • Omnia (1900-1911)
  • Ruska (1968-c.1982)
  • Shelter
    Shelter (automobile)
    The Shelter was an experimental city car of the 1950s and one of the first applications of such a concept.It was conceived, designed and built by Dutch engineering student Arnold van der Goot starting in 1954. Van der Goot's interest in transportation developed during his postwar employment by...

     (1956)
  • Simplex (1898-1917)
  • Spijkstaal (1972-1977, or 1938-present for commercial vehicles)
  • Spyker
    Spyker
    Spyker was a Dutch car manufacturer, started in 1880 by coachbuilders Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker, but to be able to market the brand better in foreign countries, in 1903 the 'ij' was changed into 'y'...

     (1898-1925)
  • Spyker Cars
    Spyker Cars
    Spyker Cars is a Dutch sports car marque. The modern Spyker Cars only has the legal right to the brand name. The company's motto is "Nulla tenaci invia est via", which is Latin for "For the tenacious, no road is impassable". The marque's logo displays the piston engine of an airplane, a reference...

     (2000-present)
  • Startwin (1991-present)
  • Vandenbrink (1997-2006)
  • Van Gink
    Van Gink
    The Van Gink was a Dutch automobile manufactured between 1899 and around 1903. Powered by two separate 2½ hp De Dion-Bouton-engines mounted at its rear, the tubular-framed voiturette was the product of a cycle maker from Amsterdam....

     (1899-1903)
  • Waaijenberg
    Waaijenberg
    Waaijenberg is a Dutch carmaker of micro cars, founded in 1966 by Kees Waaijenberg, and headquartered in Veenendaal, Netherlands.In the 1970s and 1980s, it was popular for importing the Dutch version of Robin Reliant by the British carmaker Reliant. In 1978, the company started making vehicles for...

     (1986-present)

Norway

  • Bjering
    Bjering (car)
    Bjering was the brand name of an automobile type constructed by Hans C. Bjering in Gjøvik, Norway. The car had an unusual tandem-arrangement of its two seats and an air-cooled V4 engine. Its small width made the vehicle capable of driving in the narrow track left by the snow plough in the Norwegian...

     (1918-1920)
  • Buddy
    Buddy (electric car)
    Buddy is a Norwegian electric car, produced by Pure Mobility, formerly Elbil Norge AS, at Økern in Oslo. In 2007, the Buddy, and its predecessor, the Kewet, made up 20% of the electric cars in Norway.-History:...

  • Fossum (1906-1907)
  • Norsk
    Norsk (car)
    Norsk was the brand name of cars built by Norsk Automobil & Vagnfabrik AS in Oslo, Norway between 1908 and 1911. Models produced included a small automobile with a single-cylinder 8 hp engine and a heavier touring car with 4-cylinder engine...

     (1907-1911)
  • Norsk Geijer (1923-1930)
  • Strømmen (1933-1936)
  • Th!nk
    Think Nordic
    Think Global is an electric car company located in Oslo, Norway, which manufactures cars under the TH!NK brand. Production of the Th!nk City was stopped in March 2011 and the company filed for bankruptcy on June 22, 2011, for the fourth time in 20 years; but the company was bought soon after by...

    /Pivco (1996-present)
  • Troll (1955-1957)

Portugal

  • Asterio (automobile) (2009 - present)
  • Edford
    Edford (automobile)
    The automobile known as Edford was an elegant sports car built in Porto, Portugal by Eduardo Ferreirinha between 1936 and 1938, using Ford mechanicals. The name stands for "Eduardo" and "Ford". Only three or four were built in slightly different versions.-External link/reference:*...

     (1936-1938)
  • Entreposto
    Entreposto
    Entreposto is a Portuguese commercial and industrial group of companies. In 1982 it introduced Sado 550, a microcar with a 547cc 2-cyl Daihatsu engine. Around 500 were produced between 1982 and 1984, a few of which survive to this date....

     (1982-1984)
  • Marlei
    Marlei (car)
    The Marlei was a racing car built in Portugal by Mário Moreira Leite in the 1950s. It featured an aluminum body and Opel engine...

     (1950s)
  • Bravia
    Bravia (vehicles)
    Bravia was a Portuguese vehicle manufacturer. It started by reconditioning military vehicles and by 1964 it had become a manufacturer in its own right...

     (1964-present)
  • Portaro
    Portaro
    The Portaro was an all-terrain vehicle manufactured in Portugal by FMAT . The Portaro was derived from an early version of the Romanian ARO, and was available in two main versions, the Jipe and the Pick-up...

     (produced by FMAT during the 1980s)
  • UMM
    UMM (União Metalo-Mecânica)
    UMM is a Portuguese metal works factory and ex-automobile manufacturer based in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1977 with the purpose of manufacturing four-wheel drive vehicles for agricultural, industrial and utility applications.-History:...

     (1978-2006)
  • Vinci (automobile)
    Vinci (automobile)
    Vinci is a Portuguese-based project for a brand of cars ....

     (2008 - present)

San Marino

  • DECSA (1982-c.1987)
  • Epocar (1991-c.1993)

Switzerland

  • Ajax
    Ajax (1906 automobile)
    The Ajax was a Swiss automobile built from 1906 to 1910.Dr. G. Aigner built his first car in Zürich in 1906, but failed. The remains were taken over by a company led by three directors from New York, Java and Switzerland. A chain-drive monobloc 20/27cv four was introduced early on; the company...

     (1906-1910)
  • Albar
  • Asper (1908-1911)
  • Beck Engineering & Composites
  • Belcar
  • Berna
    Berna
    Berna was a Swiss manufacturer of buses, trolleybuses and trucks, which later also specialized in surface metallurgical treatments and components. Until the 1960s it was primarily a vehicle manufacturer, but between 1965 and 1978 vehicle manufacturing was phased out and replaced with other products...

     (1902-1911)
  • Brunau-Weidmann (1907)
  • Cegga (1960-1970)
  • Ciem (1902-1905)
  • Dufaux
    Dufaux automobile
    Dufaux was a Swiss car manufacturer established Geneva in 1904 by Charles and Frédéric Dufaux.The first Dufaux was built to enter the famous Gordon Bennett cup race, held that year in the region of Taunus near Frankfurt/Main. The car had an eight-in-line engine with a displacement of no less than...

     (1904-1906)
  • Egg & Egli
    Egg (car)
    Egg or Egg & Egli was a Swiss car make in business from 1896 to 1919. It was one of the more long-lived early Swiss car makes. It appeared at numerous auto shows and competed in France's annual smash-up derby.- History :...

     (1896-1919)
  • Enzmann
    Enzmann
    The Enzmann 506 was a Swiss automobile manufactured from 1957 until the late 1960s . The company purchased new Volkswagens, unbolted the Beetle body shells from the floorpans, and refitted them with elegant fiberglass bodywork produced by a boatyard in Grandson...

     (1957-1967)
  • Ernst (1905-1908)
  • Fischer (1908-1914)
  • Gmur (1914)
  • Helios (1906-c.1907)
  • Henriod (1893-1898)

  • JM (1913)
  • Kauffmann (1896-1905)
  • Leblanc (1998-present)
  • Lucerna (1907-c.1909)
  • Lucia (1903-1908)
  • Martini
    Martini (automobile company)
    This is a page about the pioneer auto company. For the racing team, see Martini .Martini was a pioneer Swiss automobile manufacturer, in operation 1897 to 1934....

     (1897-1933)
  • Maximag (1922-1928)
  • Millot
    Millot
    Millot was a French automobile built by the Millot brothers in the town of Gray, in 1896.The car was steered with a flat steering wheel in the center of the car. The seating was a seat at the back facing forward and a seat on the front where the passengers would have been facing in the opposite...

     (1906-1907)
  • Minelli (1998-present)
  • Monteverdi
    Monteverdi (car)
    Monteverdi was a Swiss brand of luxury cars created in 1967 by Peter Monteverdi and based in Binningen on the southern edge of Basel, Switzerland.-History:...

     (1956-1992)
  • Moser (1914-1924)
  • Orca
    Orca Engineering
    Orca Engineering is a sports car manufacturing company based in Switzerland.Founded by René Beck, the company is most notable for three separate models of car - the C113, R113, and the SC7...

  • Orion (1900)
  • Pic-Pic
    Pic-Pic
    Pic-Pic was a Swiss automobile manufactured in Geneva from 1906 to 1924. They were produced by the Piccard-Pictet Company until 1920, and by Gnome et Rhône from 1920 until the demise of the marque in 1924.-History:...

     (1906-1924)
  • Popp (1898)
  • Rapid (1899-1900)
  • Rapid (1946-1951)

  • Rinspeed
    Rinspeed
    Rinspeed is a Swiss automobile manufacturer and tuning designer. Rinspeed specialise in restoring classic cars, and tuning and modifying modern cars...

     (1995-present)
  • Safir (1906-c.1909)
  • Saurer (1896-1917)
  • Sbarro
    Sbarro (automobile)
    Sbarro is a small Swiss high-performance replica and sports car company founded by Franco Sbarro in 1971.-Models:thumb|Sbarro Espera ESP 9The first Sbarro offered was a replica of the Lola T70, powered by a 5.4-liter Chevrolet V8...

     (1967-present)
  • Sigma (1909-1914)
  • SLM (1899; 1934-1935)
  • SNA (1903-1913)
  • Soletta (1956-1976)
  • Speidel (1914-1922)
  • Stella (1906-1913)
  • Thury-Nussberger
  • Tribelhorn
    Tribelhorn
    The Tribelhorn was a Swiss electric car manufactured from 1899 until 1919 in Zurich. Production began in earnest in 1902; three- and four-wheelers were offered. The company also produced trolleytrucks that were used in Gümmenen and Mühleberg Switzerland between 1918 and 1922 during the...

     (1899-1920)
  • Turbo (1921-1922)
  • Turicum
    Turicum
    Turicum was a Swiss automobile manufactured between 1904 and 1906 in Zurich, 1907 till 1912 in Uster. Turicum is the Latin name of Zurich....

     (1904-1914)
  • Weber (1899-1906)
  • Yaxa
    Yaxa
    The Yaxa was a Swiss automobile produced from 1912 until 1914. Its name was a phonetic rendering of the phrase 'Y a que ça . Of Genevan manufacture, the car was built by Charles Bahni, an early collaborator of Charles-Edouard Henriod...

     (1912-1914)
  • Zédel
    Zédel
    Zédel was a Swiss automobile manufacturer established in 1901 by Ernest Zürcher and Herman Lüthi. The factory first manufactured motorcycle engines.In 1906, Zedel began producing automobiles . By 1914 about 400 units had been produced....

     (1907-1908)

Sources

  • Georgano, Nick (Ed.). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. ISBN 1-57958-293-1
  • Mazur, Eligiusz (Ed.). World of Cars 2006/2007: Worldwide Car Catalogue. Warsaw: Media Connection, 2006. ISSN 1734-2945

See also

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