C. Jeantaud

C. Jeantaud
legal form
founding	1893
resolution	1906
Seat	Paris , France
management	Charles Jeantaud
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Jeantaud Milord (1898)

Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat on a Jeantaud Duc (1899)

C. Jeantaud was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Jeantaud founded the company for the production of automobiles in Paris in 1893. The brand name was Jeantaud . Production ended in 1906 with the death of Charles Jeantaud.

vehicles

The company initially only manufactured electric cars. There was a choice of open bodies, coupés and Hansom cabs . From 1905, the vehicles had front-wheel drive . One vehicle took part in the Paris – Bordeaux – Paris car race in 1895 , but was eliminated. In addition, record vehicles were created for the hunt for the land speed record , which the driver Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat was able to achieve three times.

Between 1903 and 1904 the company also manufactured vehicles with gasoline engines. There was a choice of a two-cylinder engine with 12 hp , a three-cylinder engine with 18 hp and a four-cylinder engine with 24 hp.

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 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Jeantaud vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeantaud record car (accessed April 7, 2013)
• Description of a Phaëton électrique de Jeantaud from 1894 (French, accessed April 7, 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.