Automobiles Bardon

Automobiles Bardon
legal form
founding	1899
resolution	1903
Seat	Puteaux , France
management	Louis Bardon
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Bardon from 1899 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf

Automobiles Bardon was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Louis Bardon founded in 1899 in Puteaux , the company SA of Automobiles et Traction (Système Bardon) and began the production of automobiles. In 1901 it was renamed Automobiles Bardon . In 1903 the automobile manufacturer Georges Richard from Paris took over the company. This ended the production of Automobiles Bardon. In total, a few dozen vehicles were built.

Models

The first model 4/5 CV possessed as the vehicles of Gobron-Brillié a counter-piston - cylinder engine , which was placed in center of the vehicle below the floor boards and its performance from 5 PS gave to the rear wheels through a three-speed transmission and chain drive. With a wheelbase of 196 cm and a track width of 118 cm, the vehicle length was 285 cm and the vehicle width 144 cm.

In 1901, at the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris, Bardon presented two single-cylinder models with water-cooled engines producing 7 hp and 10 hp respectively.

In 1902 the 7/10 CV model with a two-cylinder engine and cardan drive was added. In addition, were trucks produced.

Three vehicles from this manufacturer survived. One can be seen in the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse , another in the Shuttleworth Collection in Biggleswade, England .

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 : Bardon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• photo

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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
4. ↑ www.brighton-early.com about Georges Richard-Brasier ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed February 19, 2013) 
5. ^ 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.