Automoto
Automoto was a French bicycle , motorcycle and automobile manufacturer.
Company history
The company was founded as Chavanet, Gros, Picard et Cie and later renamed itself SA Nouvelle de Constructions Mécanique de la Loire AUTOMOTO . It manufactured bicycles, motorcycles and cars of various classes in Saint-Étienne in the Loire department , on avenue Malakoff in Paris and in Beaulieu-Valentigney between 1899 and 1962. The company also marketed some vehicles as Svelte .
vehicles
motorcycles
Built-in engines ( two-stroke and four-stroke ) provided the drive . The built-in motors were purchased from Chaise , Zurcher and JAP before the Second World War , and from AMC after the war . In 1962 the brand was part of the Terrot and Peugeot group .
Automobiles
The automobile production included three -wheeled tricycles , four-wheeled quadricycles , the 4½ CV model with a single cylinder engine and the 12 CV , 20 CV , 30 CV and 40 CV models with four-cylinder engines . It ended in 1907.
An automoto quadricycle can be seen at the Autoworld Brussels car museum in Brussels .
literature
- Erwin Tragatsch, All Motorcycles 1894–1981. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-87943-410-7 .
- 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 1: A – F. 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
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on February 18, 2013)
- French website
- Photo (accessed February 18, 2013)
- Vintage Motorcycles - Automoto Motorcycles