Auto Leger

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Cars Léger V. Crepet
legal form
founding 1904
resolution 1907
Seat Lyon , France
management Crepet, Toussant
Number of employees 7th
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Autos Léger V. Crepet was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Messrs Crepet and Toussant founded the company in Lyon in 1904 to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Auto Léger . The two owners employ four people and one apprentice. Production ended in 1907. A total of 3 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first vehicle was created in the Tonneau body shape and offered space for four people. It was later given a commercial vehicle body and was exhibited at the Paris Motor Show in 1904 . The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

The second vehicle was a chain drive two-seater .

The third vehicle had a cardan drive again and offered space for four people. The buyer was a doctor. These three vehicles had a self-developed two-cylinder engine with 9 hp . The transmission had three gears.

Another source also mentions the use of a four-cylinder engine .

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. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.