Brasier
Société des Automobiles Brasier
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founding | 1905 |
resolution | 1926 |
Seat | Ivry Port near Paris |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
The Société des Automobiles Brasier was a French manufacturer of automobiles . The trademark was a four-leaf clover.
Company history
The designer Henri Brasier founded the company in 1905 after separating from his partner Georges Richard at Richard-Brasier . Before the First World War , the company sold around a thousand vehicles a year. In 1919 production was resumed, but largely stagnated. In 1926 the manager Chaigneau took over the company and renamed it Chaigneau-Brasier .
Overview
- 1897–1902 Société des Anciens Établissements Georges Richard by Georges Richard, Maxime Richard and from 1901 Henri Brasier
- 1903–1904 Richard-Brasier by Georges Richard and Henri Brasier
- 1905–1940 Unic by Georges Richard, from 1922 George Dubois
- 1905–1926 Société des Automobiles Brasier by Henri Brasier
- 1926–1930 Chaigneau-Brasier
vehicles
The company manufactured models with two- , four- and six-cylinder engines before 1914 . Among other things, there were the models 11 CV , 12 CV , 15 CV and 16 CV . In 1919 the four-cylinder model 18 CV with 3404 cm³ displacement and four-wheel brakes followed, and in 1920 another four-cylinder model with 2120 cm³ displacement. Later there was the model TB 4 with 2062 cm³ displacement and two small models with 951 cm³ and 1452 cm³ displacement.
Léon Théry in a brazilian car race in 1908
Brasier KD from 1908 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf
Licensing
Fides Fabbrica Automobili from Rome manufactured Brasier models under license between 1905 and 1909 .
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
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 9, 2013)
- Company history (accessed March 9, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
- ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.