Amédée Bollée fils

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Amédée Bollée fils
legal form
founding 1885
resolution 1922
Seat Le Mans , France
management Amédée Bollée Junior
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Amédée Bollée fils Type F

Amédée Bollée fils was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Amédée Bollée Junior was the son of Amédée Bollée , who manufactured steam cars in his company between 1873 and 1881 . In 1885 he founded his company in Le Mans . The brand name was Amédée Bollée . Production ended in 1922. The licensees were De Dietrich from Lunéville , De Dietrich from Niederbronn and Leesdorfer Automobilwerke from Austria .

vehicles

The first vehicle was built in 1885 with the help of his father. It was a stagecoach with a steam engine, commissioned by the Marquis de Roc. In the same year he also made a smaller steam car based on his own designs.

In 1889 experiments with gasoline engines began. The first motor car with a petrol engine went into series production in 1896. The two-cylinder engine with 6 hp propelled the rear axle via belts. The vis-à-vis body shape offered space for four people. One of these vehicles took part in the Paris – Marseille – Paris race in 1896 . In 1898 a racing car with a streamlined body took 3rd place in the Paris – Amsterdam race . In 1899 a racing car followed with a four-cylinder engine and 6300 cm³ displacement , which made 20 hp. Production vehicles of the year were a two-cylinder model with 10 hp and a four-cylinder model with 12 hp. From 1904, the four-cylinder engine was arranged vertically and the radiator grille was round, as in the Delaunay-Belleville vehicles of the time . The Type E was on offer between 1907 and 1914 . The engine had a capacity of 6333 cm³. The price was comparable to that of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost . More than 200 copies were made of this model. In 1912 the Type F added to the range. The engine had a displacement of 4000 cm³.

After the First World War , only a few type F vehicles were built .

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