Clement & Cie

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Clement & Cie
legal form
founding 1898
resolution 1903
Seat Levallois-Perret
management Adolphe Clément
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Clément-De Dion from 1898
Clément-Panhard from 1899
Clément-Panhard from 1900

Clément & Cie was a French automobile manufacturer .

Company history

Adolphe Clément founded the company in Levallois-Perret in 1898 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Clément . Production ended in 1903. In October 1903, the company was renamed SA des Établissements Clément-Bayard , and the vehicles were now offered as Clément-Bayard . Clément chose the name Bayard after Pierre du Terrail , Chevalier de Bayard, a knight of the Middle Ages in his region.

vehicles

The first vehicles were three-wheelers and four-wheelers. From around 1898 there were the models Clément-De Dion with a De Dion-Bouton engine in the rear and Clément-Panhard based on a design by the designer Krebs for Panhard & Levassor , which, however, did not go into production at Panhard & Levassor.

In 1901 the more modern 7 CV models with a single-cylinder engine and 12 CV with a two-cylinder engine followed , in which the engine was installed in the front of the vehicle, and in 1902 the 20 CV with a four-cylinder engine , which was also used as a racing car in the Paris-Vienna race.

In 1903 the range consisted of the 9 CV models and the two four-cylinder models 12 CV and 16 CV .

  • Clément from 1902

  • Clément from 1902

  • Clément from 1903

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 : Clément  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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.