Bolide (car brand)

Bolide from 1902

Bolide from 1902

Bolide from 1904

Bolide from 1904

Bolide was the brand name of a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Léon Lefèbvre & Cie. from Paris , which had already gained experience in automobile construction with the Léo , began again with the production of automobiles in 1899. In 1905 the company was renamed Société l'Auto-Réparation when the owner Léon Lefèbvre left the company to found Automobiles Prima . Production ended in 1907.

vehicles

At the beginning there were two large two-cylinder models 8 CV with 2090 cm³ displacement and 16 CV with 5298 cm³ displacement and the four-cylinder model 40 CV with 11,692 cm³ displacement. Snoeck from Belgium produced these vehicles under license . From 1902, built-in motors from Aster , De Dion-Bouton and Tony Huber were used. The four-cylinder models 12 CV and 22 CV and the six-cylinder model 35 CV , which had a cardan drive , were produced.

Two vehicles of this brand occasionally take part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

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)

Web links

Commons : Bolide  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on February 21, 2013)

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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.