Établissements Terrot

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Terrot & Cie
Société Anonyme des Établissements Terrot
legal form Société Anonyme
founding 1887
resolution 1961
Seat Dijon , France
Branch vehicle construction

Brand logo on a motorcycle tank
Advertisement for a bicycle
Motorcycle (1904)
Motorcycle (1931)

The Société Anonyme des Établissements Terrot was a French company.

Company history

Charles Terrot founded the Terrot & Cie branch of his Cannstatter company Terrot in Dijon in 1887 . The management of the new plant was entrusted to his son Franz and his son-in-law Wilhelm Duttlinger. Since difficulties arose in making the factory profitable with the production of circular knitting machines alone, the production of bicycles began in 1890 , and later automobiles and motorcycles . As a result of the German defeat in World War I , the Dijon plant was expropriated and later sold. In 1920 the Société Anonyme des Établissements Terrot was created , with Alfred Vurpillot at its head. By 1928, Terrot had grown to become Dijon’s largest employer, employing around 1500 people. Ultimately, Terrot could not hold its own against more successful brands such as Peugeot and Motobécane and had to stop production in 1958. The employees were taken over by Automobiles Peugeot. In 1961, the production of mopeds and motorcycles in the Automoto factory in Saint-Étienne ended for good.

vehicles

Automobiles

Small cars were built in 1900 and 1902, but they did not get beyond prototype status. Automobiles were produced again between 1912 and 1914. There were the four-cylinder models 8 CV with 1244 cm³ displacement and 10 CV with 1460 cm³ displacement. The engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

On October 18, 2014, the Dorotheum auction house auctioned a Type IX car from 1914 in Salzburg for 15,120 euros .

motorcycles

The first motorcycles were created in 1902. Three types of motorcycles with different single-cylinder built -in engines were produced.

In 1905 two-cylinder models were also added. 1915 Terrot supplied the French army with motorettes 500 series. In 1921 a new generation of two-wheelers was introduced. Straight frames, wide handlebars, a tapered tank and black paintwork with golden decorative lines now characterize the new models with two-stroke engines . The types E (with 267 cm³ displacement) and L (with 175 cm³ displacement) were presented, from which a large number of similar models developed, which were produced until the 1930s. In 1925 the E series became the F series with a displacement of 250 cm³. From 1923, in addition to the two-stroke engines, a model series with four-stroke engines was presented for the first time , which was built into the 1950s. At first there were models with English JAP built-in engines up to 350 cm³ displacement, in 1927 500 cm³ models were added. From 1926 the first own four-stroke engines were installed. The hundred thousandth motorcycle left the factory in October 1929.

After the Great Depression (as a new vehicle class Bicyclettes à moteur auxiliaire motor-assisted bicycles introduced). In 1932, Terrot made headlines in racing as a three-time French champion; in the same year Coulon won the 250cc class, Boetsch the 350cc class and Gillot the 500cc class.

Before the Second World War , Terrot became the main supplier to the French army. Different types have been developed for this purpose: the GT type with engines from 350 to 750 cm³, the type DT with engines from 500 to 750 cm³. The military team Gnome et Rhône AX II was reproduced under license.

In 1951, the first scooter was introduced relatively late . But for Terrot in the 1950s only the market for light motorcycles and mopeds remained, because the car increasingly displaced the motorcycle.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Terrot.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. 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 : Établissements Terrot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  2. ↑ a b c Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  3. ↑ Auction (accessed March 30, 2018)