Jack Craib's Rowboat Motor Information Site

Meteor
AB Motor och Båtverkstäderna (MBV)


The Meteor engine was manufactured by AB Motor and Boat Workshops in Uppsala, Sweden.

The engines that were manufactured were sold under different names, Meteor, MBV, Pilot, Prior and others.

The engines were basically copies of Evinrude's single-cylinder engine from 1909. The Meteor name was used from 1913 and into the early years of the 1920s.

 

Information and images from Sjöhistoriska Museet

 

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These motors were
in an auction., 2022

This one from Zuidhorn's Museum of the Collector's auction in 2021.
 

The Meteor engine was manufactured by AB Motor and Boat Workshops in Uppsala, Sweden.

The engines that were manufactured were sold under different names, Meteor, MBV, Pilot, Prior and others. (Also Setah, Svalan, Perfect, Express.)
The engines were basically copies of Evinrude's single-cylinder engine from 1909.

The Meteor name was used from 1913 and into the early years of the 1920s.

Production 1918
MANUFACTURER The engine and boat workshops (1906 - 1935)


source:Maritime Museum and the Marine Museum in Varberg