Belvallette Frères
Belvallette Frères , often also spelled "Belvalette Frères", was a French company that manufactured carriages and other vehicles.
history
The Belvallette family company was founded by Jacques Belvallette (1785–1855) as early as 1804 in Boulogne-sur-Mer on the property at 139 rue Royale. In addition to coach construction, it also offered repairs, including for stagecoaches. At that time, the founder's two sons, Jacques and Norbert, who would later trade as Belvallette Frères, had not yet been born.
After completing their training in England, they took over the company in 1840 and established it in Paris in 1850. In addition to a shop on the Champs-Élysées at number 24, they had a workshop on rue Bayard; In 1856 they moved to a larger property on avenue de l'Impératrice and finally to rue Duret at number 21. One of the brothers managed the plant in Boulogne, the other the one in Paris.
The Belvallette brothers exhibited their products at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 , where they received a gold medal. They had already presented it in London and received several awards. They also invented several innovations that made the vehicles lighter and more practical, including a friction nail attached directly to the car body and a foldable door handle.
Other inventions belonged to the curiosity category , such as the cynophore by Alfred Norbert Jacques Belvallette, a three-wheeled vehicle that was driven by dogs on wheels.
The company was the world economic crisis of 1929 victim and was closed in 1933 by Jean Belvallette.
vehicles
A number of Belvallette vehicles have been preserved or at least documented.
From the time around 1880 z. B. a break by Belvallette Frères in the Musée des Equipages in Vaux-le-Vicomte Castle .
Belvallette Frères supplied the body for one of the first Panhard & Levassor automobiles, among other things . The vehicle, built in 1891, was equipped with a two-cylinder engine from Daimler ; it was possibly driven by Hippolyte Panhard himself.
The Bibliothèque nationale de France has an album with 110 pictures of vehicles belonging to the Belvallette Frères from the Georges Sirot collection , the majority of which are albumen prints . The carriages are usually presented here unstrung.
Pictures from the Georges Sirot Collection
One of the rarer shots with horse and coachman
A car at the preferred photo location
The production hall can probably be seen in the background.
In the background one of the company buildings with name inscription
literature
- Belvallette bodywork. Avenue de l'Impératrice in Paris. Maison à Boulogne-sur-Mer , in: M. Levy, Les grandes usines , M. Levy, 1874, pp. 49–80 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
Web links
- Modèles de voitures de la maison Belvallette Frères à Paris ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on the Belvallette family on gw.geneanet.org
- ↑ a b Carrossier BELVALETTE à Boulogne sur mer on www.minboulogne62.fr
- ↑ Belvallette bodywork. Avenue de l'Impératrice in Paris. Maison à Boulogne-sur-Mer , in: M. Levy, Les grandes usines , M. Levy, 1874, p. 54 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ François Ducuing (ed.), L 'Exposition Universelle de ... illustrée , Volume 1, Paris, 1867, p 382 ( digitized )
- ↑ Belvallette Part I at www.tradition-fahrkunst.de
- ↑ Illustration of the break on balkiara.joueb.com
- ↑ To Early Belvallette Car Body , at www.prewarcar.com