Établissements Émile Pilain

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Établissements Émile Pilain
legal form
founding 1930
resolution December 1931
Seat Levallois-Perret
management Émile Pilain
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Établissements Émile Pilain was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The designer Émile Pilain , who previously worked for Rolland-Pilain , founded the company to manufacture automobiles in Levallois-Perret in 1930 . The brand name was Pilain or Émile Pilain . Production ended in December 1931. In total, fewer than 100 vehicles were probably built, five of which still exist. There was no connection with Automobiles Pilain from Lyon .

vehicles

From 1930 a small car with a water-cooled four - cylinder engine with 919 cm³ displacement and a three-speed gearbox was manufactured. In 1932 the 5 CV model was added to the range, with an engine with a displacement of 1200 cc.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b c Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.