Automobiles Charron

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Automobiles Charron LTD

logo
legal form Limited
founding 1907
resolution 1930
Seat Puteaux , France
management Fernand Charron
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Charron Ltd. share dated December 23, 1913
Charron
Charron, front with logo

Automobiles Charron was a French automobile manufacturer that existed from 1907 to 1930.

Three former bicycle and car racers of the Panhard & Levassor brand  - Fernand Charron , Léonce Girardot and Émile Voigt , founded the CGV company in Puteaux in 1901 . After Girardot left the company in 1906 and a British group of investors took control, it was renamed Automobiles Charron Limited .

Various four-cylinder models were produced by 1912, including a 12 CV with 2412 cm³ displacement and a 29 CV with 5701 cm³ displacement. Fernand Charron left the company in 1907 and founded Alda , a small sports car manufacturer in Courbevoie , in 1912 .

For a long time, Charron stuck to the design of installing the water cooler behind instead of in front of the engine. This resulted in a “shovel-shaped” bonnet. The best-known representative of this principle was Renault , which stuck to it well into the 1920s.

In 1912 a six-cylinder model with a displacement of 3619 cc and the small 7/10 CV appeared. Shortly before the First World War, the Charronette was developed from the latter , a Voiturette (small car) with 6 CV and 1056 cm³ displacement. Thanks to army orders, production could continue during the war.

After the war, civil production was resumed with seven models, but this confusing delivery program was reduced to three types by 1920.

In 1925 the new model 12/14 CV with a six-cylinder engine and a displacement of 2770 cm³ was presented. The Charronette was built - as a small truck Fourgonette  - until the company closed in 1930.

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 : Charron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in some sources also Carl Voigt called