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Lucien Rosengart (1881 - 1976) was a gifted engineer and businessman who had established a successful engineering business by the time he was 24. In the mid 1920s, he saw the opportunity to produce a very small car for a segment of the market in France that he believed was not being properly covered by any of the major players. He therefore purchased, in 1923, a license to build the English Austin 7 and with support from the engineer Jules Salomon he purchased the old Bellanger factory at Neuilly. The site was a large one and in the early years the business appeared set to fill it.
At the Neuilly plant, on the Boulevard de Dixmude, in 1927 production began of the Rosengart LR2 automobile which appeared on the market in 1928, at the same time as the precursor of the first BMW automobile, also an Austin 7 built under licence, was appearing in Germany. Numerous variants of the Rosengart LR2 were produced and the car remained in production at least till 1939.
The LR2 was promoted for its reliability. A production car driven by François Lecot covered 900 km (560 mi) per day for more than three and a half months until it had notched up 100,000 km (62,000 mi) without any major mishap, and in the same period an LR2 achieved a class win in 80 of the 81 sporting trials in which it participated...
Rosengart links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobiles_L._Rosengart
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobiles_L._Rosengart
www.ekeren-ton.nl/index2.HTML
www.rosengart-automobile.de/
www.club-rosengart-france.fr/
www.rosengart-museum.de/
www.bmwism.com/bmws_designers.htm
www.cartype.com/pages/2588/rosengart_brochures
www.flickr.com/search/?q=rosengart&m=tags
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