Belga Rise

Belga Rise BR 8 from 1934

Belga Rise BR 8 from 1934

Belga Rise was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Ghent company started producing automobiles in 1929. Production ended in 1938.

vehicles

The first model was identical to the French Sizaire-Berwick , which is why it was also called the Sizaire Belge . It was a luxury model and was of a Willys-Knight - valve engine with six cylinders driven.

From 1932 the model was optionally available with a six-cylinder engine with a displacement of 3030 cm³ and an eight-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4080 cm³. The engines came from both Talbot and American engine manufacturers.

One vehicle, a Belga Rise BR 8 sedan from 1934 with a body by Vesters & Neirinck , can be viewed at the Autoworld Brussels car museum in Brussels .

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)

Web links

Commons : Belga Rise  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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