Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques Ch. Wilford et Fils

Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques Ch. Wilford et Fils was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles from Temse .

Company history

Charles Wilford founded the company in 1896 and began building cars in 1897. Production initially ended in 1901. In 1919 the import of vehicles from Willys-Overland began and in 1936 the assembly of these vehicles began.

vehicles

The first model was inspired by the German Benz . It had a single cylinder engine in the rear and the body shape vis-à-vis . The 6 CV model with a two-cylinder front engine followed in 1899 as dos-à-dos . In 1900 the Dog-cart models followed, with a two-cylinder engine with an output of 7  hp , and a small three-seater Voiturette with an engine with an output of only 3 hp.

In 1956, Wilford produced the Trippel 750 under license .

literature

• Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian, Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-8705-7001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-8512-0090-9 . (French)
• George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
• Hanns Peter Rosellen: German small cars , Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-89350-040-5 .

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)
• Jeep Big-One (French, accessed December 29, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rosellen: German small cars.