Automobiles Robert Serf

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Automobiles Robert Serf
legal form
founding 1925
resolution 1942
Seat Nancy -Vendeuvre, France
management Georges Didier
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Robert Serf was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Georges Didier founded an automobile workshop in Colombey-les-Belles . He drove cars from Ford and tractors of Fordson . In 1925 the production of automobiles began. The designer was Robert Serf. The brand name was Robert Serf . Production ended in 1935. Then the move to Nancy -Vendeuvre took place. The company existed until around 1942 when Georges Didier died. The designer Serf also ran an automobile workshop until the 1970s.

vehicles

The first model was the most successful model. A self-developed four-cylinder engine with side valves and 1470 cm³ displacement provided the drive . There was a choice of sports cars, touring cars , limousines and a business car that , despite its limousine shape, had an opening hatch at the rear. The bodies were made by local body manufacturers. About 70 vehicles were made from this model.

The 4 CV model followed in 1932 . A two-cylinder two - stroke engine with a displacement of 600 cm³ propelled the vehicles. The body offered space for two people. About 10 vehicles were built.

In 1935, a front-wheel drive model with the same engine followed as a prototype , but this no longer went into series production.

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)

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 c d Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.