Automobiles Filtz

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Société des Moteurs et Voitures Automobiles Filtz
legal form
founding 1899
resolution after 1910
Seat Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
Branch Engine builder , automobile manufacturer

The Société des Moteurs et Voitures Automobiles Filtz was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Neuilly-sur-Seine was mainly an engine manufacturer and supplier of built-in engines to automobile and aircraft manufacturers, but started its own production of automobiles in 1899. The brand name was Filtz . Vehicle production ended around 1903.

vehicles

A small car was produced from 1899 . In 1902 a racing car with a four-cylinder engine that developed 40 hp followed .

Engines

Left: Filtz 60 HP HP rotary aircraft engine (1910).

The early Filtz motors were idiosyncratic designs. They were designed as two-cylinder cylinders with horizontal pistons , each of which drove its own vertical crankshaft . A flywheel was attached to the lower end of each crankshaft , which was therefore positioned horizontally. The principle did not prevail and was abandoned in 1902. It appears that more conventional four-cylinder engines were made after this.

Filtz concentrated on engines again after the automotive industry was discontinued. In 1910 the company presented an unusual rotary engine with an even number of cylinders (six). It made 60 hp and was designed as an aircraft engine.

Engine deliveries

Built-in engines were supplied to the following automobile manufacturers: Sage and Turgan-Foy .

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)
  • GN Georgano (Editor-in-Chief), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI, 1979; ISBN 0-87341-024-6 . (English)

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. ↑ a b Georgano, Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles, p. 629 (Turgan).