Bellanger Frères

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Société des Automobiles Bellanger Frères

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founding 1912
resolution 1928
Reason for dissolution Takeover by Peugeot and Automobiles L. Rosengart
Seat Neuilly-sur-Seine
management Robert Bellanger
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Bellanger Type A1 from 1921
Automobiles Bellanger Frères SA shares of 100 francs on September 30, 1920

The Société des Automobiles Bellanger Frères was a French manufacturer of internal combustion engines and automobiles .

Company history

Robert Bellanger (1884–1966) founded the company in 1912 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , today in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, for the production of aircraft engines and automobiles. The brand name was Bellanger . The automobile was built in small numbers. Bellanger automobiles were considered representative, solid vehicles. Interestingly enough, Bellanger preferred to use built-in engines from various suppliers than to develop his own drive system for his cars.

The company ran into increasing difficulties after the First World War and was taken over by Peugeot in 1925 . This obviously ended the company's own vehicle production.

In 1927 the competitor De Dion-Bouton withdrew from the automobile industry due to massive sales problems. Bellanger acquired some of the remaining vehicles, in particular the De Dion-Bouton Type JP small car . These received the brand-typical Bellanger front and were sold in this form as Bellanger B1 .

Peugeot had no interest in continuing the Bellanger brand. The production facilities were apparently sold to Automobiles L. Rosengart in 1928 after the inventory had been sold off.

vehicles

The vehicles before the First World War had valve- less built-in engines from Daimler with 2000 cm³, 2600 cm³, 3000 cm³ and 6300 cm³ displacement . The three small models were often used as taxis in Paris. After 1918 engines from the Briscoe Motor Corporation were used, the four-cylinder models with 3200 cm³ and 4250 cm³ displacement, and the V8 with 6400 cm³ displacement.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the La collection de voitures anciennes in Monaco .

Web links

Commons : Bellanger  - collection of images, 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. ↑ 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)
  3. ↑ George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
  4. ^ Jacques Rousseau: Guide de l'Automobile française. Éditions Solar, Paris, 1988 ISBN 2-263-01105-6 . (French)