Automobiles FD

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Automobiles FD
legal form
founding 1922
resolution 1925
Seat Roeselare , Belgium
management Florent De Puydt
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles FD was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles . The brand name was FD

Company history

The company from Brugsesteenweg in Roeselare began in 1922 with the production of automobiles under the direction of Florent De Puydt. Production ended in 1925.

vehicles

The company used built-in motors from various French manufacturers. A Ruby engine with 1099 cc was used in the 7 CV model . A CIME engine with a displacement of 1496 cc powered the 9 CV model . The 11 CV model received an Altos engine with 1996 cc. The two larger models had four-wheel brakes. There were both touring cars and two-seater sports cars. The top speed was specified as 128 km / h for the fastest model.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • GN Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present , Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 (English)
  • David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 (English)
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian and Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-8705-7001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-8512-0090-9 (French)