Automobiles Vallée

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Société des Automobiles Vallée

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legal form Société
founding 1890
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Seat Le Mans , France
management Henri Vallée
Branch Automotive industry

Vallée from 1897
Photo from 1960

The Société des Automobiles Vallée was a French manufacturer of bicycles , automobiles and motorcycles .

Company history

Henri Vallée (1865–1916) was associated with Amédée Bollée's family in the 1880s . In 1890 he founded a bicycle production company in Le Mans . In 1895 the name was changed to Société des Automobiles Vallée . At the same time, automobile construction began. The brand name was Vallée . Automobile production ended in 1902. Motorcycles were created later. It is not known when the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The first automobile had a two-cylinder engine made in-house . From 1898 there were the two-cylinder models 3 CV , 4 ½ CV and 7 CV . In 1899 a racing car with a four-cylinder engine and 7598 cm³ displacement was created , which was used in several races until 1900. Other models with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines followed.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Musée des 24 Heures in Le Mans .

literature

Web links

Commons : Automobiles Vallée  - 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. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
  3. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French).