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After production of the Marseal light car ceased, D.M.K. Marendaz went on to assemble some much more sporting machines that he called Marendaz Specials. These Marendaz cars were low-hung, attractive cars, with very Bentley-like radiators. In the same Marendaz car chassis could be had a 1½-litre side-valve engine by Anzani (the Marendaz 11/55hp model), the same unit supercharged and called somewhat optimistically the Marendaz 11/120hp, and an 1.100cc engine rated at 9/20hp. The Marendaz car was record-breaking at Montlhéry in France and other energetic publicity gained the Marendaz car make a limited amount of popularity. For 1932, a small 1.900cc six was fitted to the Marendaz car, which was known as the Marendaz 13/70hp for sale. The side-valve engine was partly American and partly British in manufacture. It could be had on the Marendaz car with a supercharger. Hydraulic brakes with a reduction gear for the pedal were fitted on the Marendaz car as well, and the body, as always on the Marendaz car, was very good-looking. A bigger 2½-litre Marendaz car, the Marendaz 17/97, appeared for 1933. A new 2-litre Marendaz 15/90hp six, powered by a Coventry-Climax engine with overhead inlet valves, was introduced in 1935. This Marendaz car was successful in competitions, making a good name for itself. The protagonists of the Marendaz car included Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Moss, the parents of Stirling Moss.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN
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