Automobiles Pilain

Société des Automobiles Pilain
legal form
founding	1902
resolution	1920
Reason for dissolution	Acquisition by Société Lyonnaise de l'Industrie Mécanique et Autos Pilain
Seat	Lyon , France
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Pilain from 1911

Pilain from 1912

The Société des Automobiles Pilain , sometimes abbreviated to SAP , was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

François Pilain (1859–1924), who had previously worked at Serpollet and La Buire , ran his own company Société François Pilain from 1893 to 1897 and then worked for Vermorel , founded the company in Lyon in 1901 and began building automobiles. The brand name was Pilain . In the period from 1906 to 1907, around one chassis was built every day . In 1908 the company went into liquidation . François Pilain had to leave and Mr de Villeneuve became the new director. During the First World War , trucks were built for Hotchkiss et Cie . The Société Lyonnaise de l'Industrie Mécanique et Autos Pilain took over the company in 1920 and continued to produce automobiles under the name SLIM until 1929 .

vehicles

At first, models with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines were created . Production of the two-cylinder models ended in 1904. In 1906 the range consisted of models with a displacement of 4000 cm³ and 8600 cm³ . In 1909 a model with 1900 cm³ displacement was added, and in 1912 a six-cylinder model with 2400 cm³ displacement. In 1913 the span of the cubic capacity was 1000 cm³ to 6300 cm³. The vehicles were elaborately built and therefore very expensive.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée Henri Malartre in Rochetaillée-sur-Saône in France.

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 3: P – Z. 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 : Pilain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 3, 2013)

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.