Automobiles Diederichs

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Société des Automobiles Diederichs
legal form
founding 1912
resolution 1914
Seat Lyon , France
management Théophile Diederichs
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Diederichs Type LC Série 1 from 1912

The Société des Automobiles Diederichs was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Diederich put 1878 in Bourgoin-Jallieu , a steam - Tricycle ago, and from 1899 to 1901 together with his son Frédéric two prototypes of a gasoline car. Charles' second son, Théophile, founded the Société des Automobiles Diederichs in 1912 . The factory was located at 6 Petite Rue Neuve in Lyon . The series production of automobiles began. The brand name was Diederichs . Production ended in 1914. A total of around 60 vehicles were built.

One vehicle still exists. It was offered at auction on June 8, 2013. The estimated price was between 46,000 and 54,000 euros .

vehicles

The model 10/12 CV from 1912 to 1914 was associated with a built-in motor of Luc Court appointed. The displacement of the four-cylinder engine was 2155 cm³. The round grille was similar to the Delaunay-Belleville vehicles .

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 : Diederichs  - 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. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ Auction of the Oldtimergalerie Toffen ( Memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed June 10, 2013)