Établissements Clément-Bayard

SA des Établissements Clément-Bayard
legal form	SA
founding	1903
resolution	1922
Seat	Levallois-Perret , France
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Clément-Bayard emblem

SA des Établissements Clément-Bayard was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Levallois-Perret was founded in 1903 as the successor to Clément & Cie . The company's founder Adolphe Clément chose the name Bayard after the Chevalier de Bayard, Pierre du Terrail , a famous medieval knight from the region. In 1914 Adolphe Clément left the company.

In 1922, production was stopped and the plant was sold to Citroën .

vehicles

Initially, there was the single-cylinder model 6 CV , the two-cylinder model 7 CV , and the four-cylinder models 14 CV , 20 CV and 27 CV , to race car with 13,963 and 16,286 cc displacement . In 1905 the two-cylinder model 8/10 CV followed , and in 1907 the four-cylinder models 10/12 CV , 35/45 CV and 50/60 CV . In 1911 the six-cylinder models 15 CV and 20 CV appeared . In 1912 the new 7 CV small car with a two-cylinder engine was presented. In 1914 there was also the six-cylinder model 30 CV and the 20 CV Knight with a four-cylinder valve engine System Knight . In 1915 the four-cylinder 8 CV model appeared . The last model was the 17.9 CV (12 CV) , which was produced from 1919 to 1922.

Vehicles of this brand can be seen in various car museums.

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  Clément-Bayard from 1904

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  Clément-Bayard from 1907

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  Clément-Bayard (Perret) 4C-4A from 1907

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  Clément-Bayard from 1909

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  Clément-Bayard from 1910

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)

Web links

Commons : Clément-Bayard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on February 23, 2013)

Individual evidence

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