Benois & Damas

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Benois & Damas
legal form
founding 1903
resolution 1904
Seat Neuilly-sur-Seine
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Benois & Damas was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1903 to manufacture automobiles. Adolphe Clément was involved in the company. Production ended in 1904. In total, only a few copies were made.

vehicles

The smaller model had a two-cylinder engine with 8 hp . There was also a model with a four-cylinder engine and 12 hp. In both models, the engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

The company may also manufacture the Sphinx engines, which were mounted in the vehicles of Clément-Bayard , Gladiator and Clement Talbot .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • 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)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

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. ↑ a b c d e f Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.