Briscoe Frères

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Briscoe Frères
legal form
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
management Benjamin Briscoe, Frank Briscoe
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Briscoe Frères was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

After the industrial and auto pioneer Benjamin Briscoe had suffered a huge fiasco in the United States by founding a holding company as a counter-concept to General Motors , he went to France with his brother Frank. In 1913 they founded the Briscoe Frères company in Neuilly-sur-Seine as a subsidiary of their American company Briscoe Motor Corporation and began producing a cycle car that was marketed as Ajax . Production in France ended in 1914. With minor technical changes, it was built in Jackson (Michigan) (United States) as Argo until 1916 and as Arabian in Waterloo (Iowa) (United States) until 1918 .

vehicles

The only model was a two-seater cycle car. It was equipped with a water-cooled four - cylinder engine with SV valve control , 980 cm³ displacement and 12 hp . The specialty was the friction or friction gear . The power was transmitted via a cardan shaft . The wheelbase was 2286 mm, the track 1118 mm and the weight about 340 kg.

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)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Editor), Henry Austin Clark Jr.: The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1942. 2nd Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-111-0 , p. 59. (English)

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. ^ GN Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. 2001.
  3. ↑ GNGeorgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. 1975.
  4. ^ The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 1985.