DD (car brand)

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DD was a car brand from French overseas territories .

Brand history

The Frenchman Marcel Degant developed a vehicle to replace the rickshaws in Vietnam . Louis Descloitre helped him. Together they started producing automobiles in Vietnam (then French Indochina ) in 1949 . The brand name was DD . In 1949 or 1950 production ended there after six vehicles were manufactured.

Degant then founded a new company in Marrakech in what was then French Morocco . Production ran until 1950. The brand name remained DD . 36 vehicles were built here.

vehicles

The only model was a tricycle (a type of auto rickshaw ) with a single front wheel. An engine of Jonghi with 125 cc displacement powered vehicles. Behind the driver there was space for two passengers.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 394 (English)

Web links

  • Allcarindex (accessed December 20, 2015)
  • d'Auto (Dutch, accessed December 20, 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e George Nick Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 394. (English)
  2. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed December 20, 2015)
  3. ↑ Allcarindex (accessed December 20, 2015)