Argus (automobile)

{{mcn|date=June 2025}}

The Argus was a German automobile manufactured by {{lang|de|Internationale Automobilzentrale KG Jeannin|i=no}} & Co from 1902 to 1904, {{lang|de|Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft Jeannin & Co|i=no}} from 1904 to 1906,{{Cite book |title=The Beaulieu encyclopedia of the automobile |date=2000 |publisher=The Stationery Office |isbn=0117023191 |editor-last=Georgano |editor-first=Nick |location=London |pages=66 |chapter=Argus (D)}} and then {{lang|de|Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft m.b.H.|i=no}} from November 1906 to 1945.{{cn|date=June 2025}}

File:Jeannin-Argus.jpg

The company was founded by Henri Jeannin in Berlin, and originally built copies of Panhard & Levassor cars; they also featured P&L engines, and most of the other components of the vehicles came from France. In 1903 the company began producing engines of its own design; Argus cars now had 2,380 cc two-cylinder engines, and 4,960 cc and 9,240 cc four-cylinder engines.

The company went on to produce marine and aero engines. In 1929 they briefly returned to car engines making some for Horch.