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Turcat-Méry was once a French car producer from 1899 till 1928.

In 1895 Alphonse Méry of Marseille purchased a Panhard et Levassor and a Peugeot. His more youthful brother Simon Méry and his brother in legislation Léon Turcat, each engineers, determined to strengthen on each fashions with their very own design, a 2.6-litre, four-cylinder, five-speed automobile with electrical ignition, radiators at each and every finish of the engine and two speeds in opposite. Thus in 1899, when the automobile was once in a position on the market, they based Turcat-Méry & Cie. They then established a partnership with Baron Adrien de Turckheim of the De Dietrich and Lorraine-Dietrich, and produced automobiles whose slogan was once The Automotive of the Gourmet.

Henri Rougier turned into the Paris agent and leader publicist for each Turcat-Méry and Lorraine-Dietrich which he completed via a protracted and a success occupation in motor racing and rallying.

Turcat-Méry’s liaison with Lorraine-Dietrich lasted till the outbreak of International Warfare I in 1914. Turcat-Méry ceased manufacturing in 1928.

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