Automobiles Bignan

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Automobiles Bignan
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founding 1918
resolution 1931
Seat Courbevoie , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

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Bignan from 1919
Bignan from 1919
Bignan at the Belgian Grand Prix in 1922

Automobiles Bignan was a French manufacturer of automobiles from Courbevoie and Levallois-Perret .

Company history

Jacques Bignan founded the company Établissements Industriels J. Bignan in Courbevoie in 1918 to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Bignan . Bignan had previously manufactured engines for other companies. Bignan received help from the Grégoire workshops in Poissy to manufacture the first automobiles . In 1920 it was renamed Automobiles Bignan . In 1926, the company went bankrupt , production was continued under the direction of Henri Précloux from competitor EHP . Production ended in 1930. Existing vehicles were sold as Bignan-MOP in 1931 .

vehicles

On offer were sporty vehicles with in-house engines that were also used in motorsport. First, there were models that either cc over 1400, 3000 cc or 3500 cc engine capacity possessed. A little later, the four-cylinder 11 CV model with 2000 cc displacement and OHC valve control appeared . From 1921 a stand Cyclecar for a license of Salmson on offer. For the vehicle, 1086 cm³ displacement, 350 kg curb weight , a two-seater body and a rear axle without differential are specified. From 1924 onwards, some four-cylinder models had four valves per cylinder. From 1927, built-in motors from Ballot , CIME , Salmson and SCAP were used.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée Automobile de Vendée in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire .

Sports successes

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 : Bignan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. a b c Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1994, ISBN 3-89350-534-2 , p. 69 .
  5. ^ L'épopée Turcat-Méry: Performances