Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Marky, Bromovsky and Schulz

From Graces Guide
Car designed by Siegfried Marcus, dated at 1888/9, on display at Vienna Technical Museum
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Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz, or Maerky Bromovský Schulz, of Prague and Hradec Králové.

1888 Made the car and its petrol engine designed by Siegfried Marcus [1]. The car is on display in Vienna Technical Museum. It was built at the M,B&S Adamstahl factory.[2]

1896 supplied two vertical compound steam engines driving generators to Neu-Bydzov Power Station.[3]

A c.1908 single cylinder horizontal steam engine, with refrigeration compressor, on display at Vienna Technical Museum has a nameplate proclaiming Prager Maschinenbau AG vorm. (formerly) Ruston & Co, Bromovsky, Schulz & Sohr. Sohr was Richard Sohr.

Prager Maschinenbau was also known at one time as Prager Maschinenbau Aktien-Gesellschaft (vormals Ruston, Bromovský u. Ringhoffer), Prag.

Photos of a surviving stationary steam engine at Jindřichova Hradce here.


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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Vienna Technical Museum website: Marcus Car, 1888/1889
  2. [2] 'The End of the Marcus Legend' by Lynwood Bryant, Technology and Culture Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct., 1971), pp. 618-620
  3. ZVDI 30 May 1896