Automobiles Porthos

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Société Générale des Automobiles Porthos
legal form Société
founding 1906
resolution 1914
Seat Billancourt , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Porthos share from 1907
The Porthos team at the 1908 French Grand Prix : (from left to right) Stricker , Gaubert and Simon

The Société Générale des Automobiles Porthos was a French automobile manufacturer .

Company history

The Billancourt company started producing automobiles in 1906. The brand name was Porthos . The liquidation followed in 1909 . Vehicles were built again between 1912 and 1914.

vehicles

The first 24/30 CV model was equipped with a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4560 cm³ . In 1907 the six-cylinder models 50 CV with 6838 cc and 60 CV with 8138 cc were added. In the same year a racing car with an eight-cylinder engine with a displacement of 10857 cm³ was used in car races.

From 1912 the range consisted of the four-cylinder models 16/20 CV with 3183 cm³ displacement and 24/30 CV with 4560 cm³ displacement as well as the six-cylinder models 20/25 CV with 4775 cm³ displacement and 30/40 CV with 6838 cm³ displacement. In 1913 the 14 CV with a displacement of 3306 cm³ was added to the range. In 1914 the 10 CV appeared with a four-cylinder engine and 2000 cc displacement.

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 : Automobiles Porthos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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.