Lux [1]

Lux was a German manufacturer based in Ludwigshafen, active under two successive names: Lux-Werke from 1897 to 1898, and Lux'sche Industriewerke AG from 1898 to 1902. The company originally produced gas lighting equipment, but as electric lighting became more widespread, this business declined, prompting the firm to turn to automobile manufacturing. Its first car was a four-seater vis-à-vis design powered by a 6 hp horizontally-opposed two-cylinder engine mounted beneath the…