Établissements Léon Paulet

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Société des Établissements Léon Paulet
legal form
founding 1922
resolution 1925
Seat Marseille
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Share in Société des Établissements Léon Paulet SA from March 1, 1920

The Société des Établissements Léon Paulet was a French manufacturer of automobiles . Other sources name the company name Société Mécanique du Rhône .

Company history

The Marseille company began producing automobiles in 1922 . The brand name was Paulet or Léon Paulet . The designer was Michelat, who previously worked for Delage . Production ended in 1925 after legal disputes with Hispano-Suiza , who complained about a prohibited replica of their engines. A total of 20 or 200 vehicles were built. Three vehicles have been preserved.

vehicles

Paulet Type 6 AB, 1922

The vehicles were equipped with their own six-cylinder engine with OHC valve control. The displacement was initially 3446 cm³ from a 75 mm bore and 130 mm stroke . The engine was thus classified as 15 CV . In the following year, 80 mm bore and 130 mm stroke resulted in 3921 cm³ displacement, corresponding to 18 CV . This engine developed 80 hp . The wheelbase was 322 cm, the track 142 cm and the weight of the chassis 1050 kg. The vehicle length of 436 cm has been handed down for a vehicle that has survived.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Paulet.
  • Ferdinand Hediger: La Marseillaise. In: Automobil- und Motorrad-Chronik , issue 4/1983, pp. 42–43.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. 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)
  • George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Publishing, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Paulet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Paulet.
  2. ↑ GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 30, 2013)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  4. ↑ a b c d Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  5. ^ Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Ferdinand Hediger: La Marseillaise. In: Automobile and Motorcycle Chronicle. Issue 4/1983, pp. 42–43.