Castro (J. Castro Sociedad en Comandita)

Automotive manufacturer of Barcelona. Spain from 1901 to 1904.

Castro Sociedad en Comandita was a Spanish manufacturer of automobiles in the early 1900s .The brand name was Castro .

History

Juan Jaime Castro founded in 1901 in Barcelona, a company for the production of automobiles. He took over La Cuadra and its chief engineer Marc Birkigt and made Birkigt his partner. On December 11, 1903, the company went bankrupt .

 In 1904, the production ended after only eight vehicles produced. Later it became Hispano-Suiza.

The company offered three models with two-cylinder engines .

 One was the 10 HP . In one model, the displacement was 2281 cc, the other 6805 cc ( bore 190 mm, stroke 120 mm). In addition, there was the 7hp and the 14 HP with four-cylinder engineand 2,217 cc.  The vehicles had a cardan drive .