Chaise (engine manufacturer)

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Chaise
legal form Chaise & Cie
founding 1921
resolution 1939
Seat Paris , France
management Maurice Chaise
Branch Engine manufacturer

Chaise was a French manufacturer of motorcycle engines . Maurice Chaise was chief engineer at Gnome et Rhône until 1921 and then founded his own company, which, alongside Train, manufactured the most famous built-in motors from French production between 1927 and 1934. Chaise supplied its ohv -controlled engines to the French motorcycle manufacturers Dollar , DéDé, New Motorcycle, New Map and Majestic, among others .

Model series in the 1930s
model cylinder Cubic capacity in cm³ Bore × stroke in mm Power in hp photo
250 1 239 66 × 70 ?
350 1 349 75 × 79 ? Chaise 350 cc OHV 1930.jpg
500 1 492 89 × 79 ? Chaise 1 cyl OHV 500 cc engine 1930.jpg
750 4th 748 62.6 x 60.8 22nd [1]

literature

  • S. Ewald, G. Murrer: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle . Novara 1996. (German edition: Weltbild Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-86047-142-2 )
  • Roger Hicks: The International Encyclopedia Motorcycles. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-613-02660-5 .
  • Erwin Tragatsch : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles. Chartwell Books, Secaucus 1986, ISBN 0-89009-868-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. S. Ewald, p. 105.
  2. Roger Hicks, pp. 125, 126.
  3. Erwin Tragatsch, p. 309.