Ateliers Defrance Frères

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Ateliers Defrance Frères
legal form
founding 1919
resolution 1922
Seat Vierzon , France
management Eugène Mauve
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Ateliers Defrance Frères was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Eugène Mauve founded the company in Vierzon in 1919 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Elfe . Production ended in 1922. In 1923 Eugène Mauve founded Cyclecars Mauve .

vehicles

The company manufactured cyclecars . In the street version with either one seat or two seats in a row, a V2 engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle, which propelled the rear wheels via belts. In the sports version with chain drive , a V2 rear engine with 1100 cm³ displacement from Anzani was used. There was also a model with two seats in a row.

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)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.