Automobiles Corre

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Société Française des Automobiles Corre

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founding 1895
resolution 1907
Seat Levallois-Perret , France
management Jean-Marie Corre
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Corre from 1904
Corre from 1907

The Société Française des Automobiles Corre was a French manufacturer of bicycles and automobiles .

Company history

Jean-Marie Corre founded the company in Levallois-Perret in 1895 to manufacture bicycles and began building automobiles in 1899. In 1907 the founder left the company to set up J. Corre et Compagnie . The new owners developed new vehicles and used the brand name Corre-La Licorne .

vehicles

The first models were three-wheelers and four-wheelers with built-in engines from De Dion-Bouton . In 1901 four-wheeled vehicles followed, which were similar to the Renaults built at the same time . In 1906 there were single-cylinder , two-cylinder and four-cylinder models with engines between 8 and 20 hp .

In 1904 a four-cylinder model was created that was used on the long-distance journey from Paris to Barcelona in 1905 , but it failed. A water-cooled engine with 90 mm bore , 100 mm stroke , 2543 cm³ displacement and 15 HP power propelled the vehicle. With a wheelbase of 280 cm and a track width of 125 cm, the vehicle is 390 cm long, 156 cm wide and 152 cm high. The curb weight is given as 1250 kg. The double phaeton body design offered space for four people. As far as is known, only one copy was made. It still exists today in the hands of a Hungarian collector who uses it on classic car drives such as the 1999 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

Vehicles of this brand can be seen in the Musée Henri Malartre in Rochetaillée-sur-Saône and in the Musée des 24 Heures in Le Mans .

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 2: G – O. 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 : Automobiles Corre  - 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.
  4. ↑ Imre Paulovits: loner. In: Motor Klassik , edition 11/2000, p. 46.