Baby Brousse

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Baby-Brousse was a brand of car from Ivory Coast .

Brand history

The Frenchman Maurice Delignon ran the company Ateliers et Forges de l'Ébrié from Abidjan . Another source names Messrs Letoquin and Lechanteur. In 1963 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Baby-Brousse . Production ended in 1979. In total, more than 30,000 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The US version of the pony

Only one model was on offer; it was a multi-purpose vehicle on the chassis of the Citroën 2 CV and was similar to the later Citroën Méhari . The body was made of steel , aluminum and wood .

literature

Web links

  • d'Auto (Dutch, accessed June 18, 2016)
  • Allcarindex (accessed June 18, 2016)
  • www.citroenet.org.uk Information on Baby-Brousse and similar vehicles in other countries (English, accessed June 20, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Baby-Brousse.
  2. ^ A b c d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 125. (English)
  3. ↑ www.citroenet.org.uk Information on Baby-Brousse and similar vehicles in other countries (English, accessed on June 20, 2016)