Automobiles Élan

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Société Automobiles Élan
legal form
founding 1898 or 1899
resolution 1900
Seat Paris , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Société Automobiles Élan was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Paris-based company began producing automobiles in 1898 or 1899. The brand name was Élan . Ateliers Germain from Belgium was a licensee . Production ended in 1900.

vehicles

A model was equipped with a air-cooled single-cylinder engine of De Dion-Bouton 3 PS power and chain drive equipped. The bodies of these two-seaters were made by Carrosserie Kellner . A later model with two of these motors, each driving a rear wheel, remained a prototype .

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 c d 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 Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.