Cognet de Seynes

Automobiles Cognet de Seynes
legal form
founding	1912
resolution	1926
Seat	Lyon
management	Edouard de Seynes
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Cognet de Seynes was a French automobile manufacturer .

Company history

Victor Cognet and Édouard de Seynes (1882–1957) founded the company in Lyon in 1912 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Cognet de Seynes . In 1920 new owners took over the company with the aim of producing 300 vehicles a year. But shortly afterwards de Seynes took control again. Production ended in 1926. The number of copies produced varies between a maximum of 30 and 20 to 30 per year. Two vehicles have been preserved.

vehicles

The only model was equipped with a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1124 cc and a three-speed gearbox. Among other things, there were touring cars with three and four seats.

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

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 9, 2013)
• Photo ( Memento of March 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed March 9, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.