De Riancey

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Société des Automobiles de Riancey
legal form
founding 1899
resolution 1901
Seat Levallois-Perret
Branch Automobile manufacturer

De Riancey from 1899

The Société des Automobiles de Riancey was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Levallois-Perret company started building automobiles in 1899. Production ended in 1901. Établissements Snoeck from Belgium used the patented front-wheel drive system for their own vehicles.

vehicles

Only one model is described in the literature. This is a front-engine , front-wheel drive vehicle . The lever steering worked on the entire front end. The two-cylinder engine was air-cooled . The body offered space for two people.

A vehicle of this brand has been preserved and is on display at Grandson Castle . Both the front and the four-seater dos-à-dos structure differ from the literature.

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 : De Riancey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e 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 d Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. a b c d e Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.