Établissements Fournier

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Établissements Fournier
legal form SA
founding 1913
resolution 1924
Seat Levallois-Perret
management Henri Fournier  and Achille Fournier (until 1918),
Victor Silvestre (from 1918)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Baby Silvestre from 1919
Baby Silvestre from 1919

Établissements Fournier was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Henri Fournier and Achille Fournier manufactured vehicles in Levallois-Perret from 1909 . In 1913 they founded the company SA Anciens Établissements Fournier . The brand name was initially Fournier . After the death of Henri Fournier, Victor Silvestre took over the company at the end of 1918 and changed the brand name to Baby-Silvestre in 1919 . Production ended in 1924.

vehicles

The first vehicles had a V2 engine from Train with a displacement of 880 cm³ . From 1913, the range consisted of the single-cylinder model 6/8 CV and the four-cylinder model 10 CV , both with a built-in engine from Ballot . After the First World War there were other models with engines from Ballot, Ruby and Train.

A vehicle of this brand could be viewed in the Autotron Rosmalen in Rosmalen .

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 : Baby Silvestre vehicles  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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.