Automobiles Claveau

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Automobiles Claveau
legal form
founding 1923
resolution 1956
Seat Paris , France
management Émile Claveau
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Miniature of the 1926 Claveau Streamlined Vehicle
Claveau 56 prototype from 1956

Automobiles Claveau was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Émile Claveau (1892–1974) founded the company in Paris in 1923 to develop automobiles. In the same year he received a patent for an aerodynamic body. Automobile production began in 1925. The brand name was Claveau . Production ended in 1956. In total, only a few vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first Autobloc model had an aerodynamic body shape and was available as a sedan and roadster. Either an air-cooled four-cylinder engine or a two-cylinder two - stroke engine , which was mounted in the rear, provided the drive. In 1930 a model with a front engine and front wheel drive followed .

After the Second World War , the Descartes model appeared with a V8 engine with a displacement of 2292 cm³ , 85 hp , a five-speed gearbox and still front-wheel drive. 1956 appeared as a prototype of the Claveau 56 with an engine from DKW .

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 : Claveau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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.