Ateliers de Construction Mécanique l'Aster

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Ateliers de Construction Mécanique l'Aster
legal form
founding 1898
resolution 1910
Seat St. Denis , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Aster tricycle from 1899
Aster from 1902
Aster 20 HP Tonneau from 1904

Ateliers de Construction Mécanique l'Aster was a French manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles .

Company history

The St. Denis company started producing motorcycles in 1898 and automobiles in 1900. Production ended in 1910. On a larger scale than your own vehicle production manufacturing took place in motors that have been delivered to numerous other automakers. In Italy , the engines were sold between 1906 and 1908 by Aster Società Italiana Motori .

vehicles

Most of them were small cars , some with three wheels. In 1903 a larger model was created with an engine with 12 hp .

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed at Autoworld Brussels .

Engines

Aster exhibited single-cylinder engines with 3 hp and 5 hp and a two-cylinder engine with 12 hp at the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris in 1901 .

Built-in engines were supplied to the following automobile manufacturers: Alba , Allen , Argyll , Ariès , Armadale , Attila , Barré , Beckmann , Begbie , Bertrand , Bolide , Canterbury , Carlton , Cavendish , Celtic , Century , Certus , Cito , Claudius , Darracq , Dennis , Eastmead & Biggs , Ernst , Gladiator , Hanzer , Highgate , Hoflack , Holdsworth , Horley , Hurtu , Isotta Fraschini , John O'Gaunt , Knight of the Road , Korn et Latil , La Plata , La Torpille , Laurent et Touzet , Loidis , Lucerna , Manchester , Martin , Newey , Newey-Aster , Parisienne , Passy-Thellier , Petit , Premier , Prunel , Quo Vadis , Record , Renault , Reyrol , Rigal , Rochet , Ryley , Sage , Sanderson-Aster , Singer , Société Manufacturière d'Armes , St. Vincent , Stonebow , Swift , Tyne and Westland .

See also

  • Aster Engineering , a former British automobile manufacturer with the same brand name

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)

Web links

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

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. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, pp. 58-59.