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Bollack, Netter & Cie

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founding 1923
resolution 1931
Seat Levallois-Perret
management Lucien Bollack (until 1928)
Nice
Charles de Ricou (from 1928)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

BNC from 1926 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf

Bollack, Netter et Cie was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Lucien Bollack and the banker Netter founded the company in Levallois-Perret in 1923 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was BNC . Charles de Ricou replaced Lucien Bollack in 1928, who resigned and founded Lucien Bollack . Production ended in 1931.

Models

The first models were sporty small cars with four-cylinder built -in engines from SCAP or Ruby with a displacement of around 900 cm³ . From 1925 engines from SCAP with a displacement of 1100 cm³ and Chapuis-Dornier were used, some of which were equipped with a compressor . The vehicles started among others in the 24-hour races of Le Mans . In 1929 the Cozette model came on the market, a sports car with a two-cylinder engine and 1100 cm³ displacement, which was similar to the Lombard of that time . The last new model from 1929 had an eight-cylinder in-line engine from Continental with a displacement of 5000 cc.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée Automobile de Vendée in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire .

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 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

Commons : BNC  - collection of pictures, 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 Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.