Chapeaux

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Voitures E. Chapeaux
legal form
founding 1940
resolution 1941
Seat Lyon , France
management Émile Chapeaux
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Voitures E. Chapeaux was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Émile Chapeaux founded the company in Lyon in 1940 and began producing automobiles, some of which took place in the Ateliers Lyonnais Ultima factory . The brand name was Chapeaux . Production ended in 1941. In total, only four vehicles were built.

vehicles

The company made electric cars. The basic set chassis of Amilcar , Mathis and Salmson . For the drive was provided by a motor .

The first vehicle was a coupe commissioned by a Red Cross employee. The following two vehicles were two-door sedans that were inspected by a factory manager and a lawyer. The fourth vehicle was a single rear wheel tricycle that a jeweler ordered.

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)

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.