Établissements Alma

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Établissements Alma
legal form
founding 1926
resolution 1929
Seat Courbevoie
management Vaslin, Maurice Coquet
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Établissements Alma was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The aircraft engineer Vaslin and Maurice Coquet founded the company in Courbevoie in 1926 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Alma . Around twelve vehicles were built in 1927. Production ended in 1927 or 1929.

vehicles

The only model Six was equipped with a six-cylinder engine with 1640 cm³ displacement and OHV valve control. A special feature was that two intake valves were installed per cylinder , but only one of them was in operation when the number of revolutions was low. Later the engine had a displacement of 1850 cm³. Among other things, there was the coupé body shape .

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 c 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 d e Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.