Automobiles Leroux-Pisart
SA of the Leroux-Pisart automobile | |
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legal form | SA |
founding | 1919 |
resolution | 1923 |
Seat | Brussels , Belgium |
management | André Pisart |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
The SA des Automobiles Leroux-Pisart was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
The company on Boulevard de Waterloo in Brussels started producing automobiles in 1919. Paul Bastien was the designer who previously worked for Métallurgique . The brand name was initially ALP . In 1920 the brand name Soméa was introduced for a new model . Production ended in 1923.
vehicles
Brand name ALP
The 10 CV model was equipped with a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1847 cc . There was also a model with a displacement of 2121 cm³. The engines came from Decologne and Ballot , the chassis from Dyle et Bacalan .
Brand name Soméa
This model was presented at the Brussels Motor Show in 1920. The vehicle had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2018 cc and OHC valve control . Only a few copies were made.
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)
Web links
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)