Automobiles Madou

Automobiles Madou
legal form
founding	1922
resolution	1925 or 1926
Seat	Paris , France
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Madou was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Automobiles Madou from Paris began in 1922 with the production of automobiles. The name Madou was chosen based on the French actress and singer Cora Madou at the time . There was a collaboration with the Société A. Marguerite from Courbevoie . Production ended in 1925 or 1926.

vehicles

Automobiles Madou used four-cylinder built -in engines from various engine manufacturers in their vehicles. There was a choice of motors from:

Chapuis-Dornier with a displacement of 900 cm³

CIME with 1494 cm³ displacement

Ruby with 985 cm³ and 1094 cm³ displacement

SCAP with 1170 cm³ displacement

The vehicles were equipped with open, two-seater bodies.

Automobiles Madou also took over five copies of the Marguerite type BO model from Marguerite, assembled its own trademark and sold these vehicles under its brand name. These vehicles had a Chapuis-Dornier engine with a displacement of 1095 cm³.

Sports activities

One vehicle entered the Brooklands autumn race in 1923 .

Sales organization

The vehicles were marketed by Automobiles Madou under the brand name Madou .

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)
George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Publishing, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 . (English)
David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 . (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars , Autos. Encyclopédie complète , Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie , Die Große Automobil-Enzyklopädie and The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile name 1925 as end of production;
The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles and Guide de l'automobile française name 1926.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.
↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present.
^ Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 . (French)
↑ The great automobile encyclopedia writes that Marguerite built vehicles for other manufacturers who offered them under their own name. Automobiles Madou thus had its own sales organization.

[bis-1] A ^b The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars , Autos. Encyclopédie complète , Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie , Die Große Automobil-Enzyklopädie and The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile name 1925 as end of production;
The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles and Guide de l'automobile française name 1926.

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[Beaulieu-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

[Autos-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.

[Illustrated-5] A ^b ^c ^d Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.

[Die_große_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-6] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5 .

[Motorcars-7] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present.

[Guide-8] Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 . (French)

[9] The great automobile encyclopedia writes that Marguerite built vehicles for other manufacturers who offered them under their own name. Automobiles Madou thus had its own sales organization.