Baudouin (make of car)

Baudouin was a Belgian car brand.

Company history

The SA des Atelier HP Déchamps was founded in 1898. The plant was located on Boulevard Baudouin in Brussels . The vehicles offered were marketed as Déchamps . On December 31, 1899, the company was renamed SA des Moteurs et Automobiles Déchamps . The Baudouin brand name was used from January 1904 when new models were developed. Production ended in 1906. The Société de Construction Mécaniques et d'Automobiles , which manufactured automobiles under the brand name Direct between 1904 and 1905, was located in the same building .

vehicles

From 1904 to 1906 there were the four-cylinder models 15 CV with 15 HP and 25 CV with 25 HP. The engines had OHC valve control .

literature

• Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian and Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-8705-7001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-8512-0090-9 (French)
• George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)