Cottereau

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Cottereau et Cie

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founding 1891
resolution 1911
Seat Dijon
management Louis Cottereau
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Cottereau from 1902
Cottereau from 1906

Cottereau et Cie was a French manufacturer of automobiles and bicycles .

Company history

The racing cyclist Louis Cottereau and his brother Henri Cottereau founded the bicycle production company in Dijon in 1891 and began building automobiles in 1898. In 1911 the company was renamed Constructions Industrielles Dijonaises and from then on the vehicles were marketed as CID .

vehicles

The first model had an air-cooled V2 engine with a capacity of 1272 cm³ and an output of 5 hp . This was followed by the 3 ½ CV and the four-cylinder 10 CV and 20 CV models . In 1903 the single-cylinder model 5 CV was added, and in 1904 a three-cylinder model with a displacement of 2500 cc. In 1906 there were models 8 CV , 12/14 CV and a six-cylinder racing car with a displacement of 18,300 cm³. In 1908 the four-cylinder model 22/26 CV with a displacement of 4200 cm³ was added, and in 1910 the single-cylinder model 9 CV .

Vehicles of this brand can be seen in the Musée Henri Malartre in Rochetaillée-sur-Saône and in Autoworld Brussels in Brussels .

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 : Cottereau  - 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. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.