Brasier

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Brasier (disambiguation) .

Société des Automobiles Brasier
legal form
founding	1905
resolution	1926
Seat	Ivry Port near Paris
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The shamrock was Brasier's logo.

Share over 100 francs in the Société des Automobiles Brasier on July 8, 1899

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.

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  Léon Théry in a brazilian car race in 1908

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  Brasier KD from 1908 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf

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  Brasier from 1910

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  Brasier from 1913

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

Commons : Brasier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 9, 2013)
• Company history (accessed March 9, 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. ^ ^{A b} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.