De la Chapelle Frères et Compagnie

De la Chapelle Frères et Compagnie
legal form
founding	1900
resolution	1920
Seat	Saint-Chamond
management	Guy de la Chapelle, Charles de la Chapelle
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Lettering on the grille

De la Chapelle Frères et Compagnie was a French manufacturer of bicycles , motorcycles and automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Guy and Charles De la Chapelle founded the bicycle production company in Cormatin in 1900 . In 1903 the production of motorcycles began. In 1907 the company moved to Saint-Chamond and started producing automobiles. The brand name was Stimula . Vehicle production ended in 1914. A total of around 1000 automobiles were built. The company existed until 1920.

A descendant of the company owners founded the new De La Chapelle company for automobile production at the same location in the 1970s .

vehicles

The first 8 CV model had a single cylinder engine , which probably came from De Dion-Bouton . There were also the four-cylinder models 8 CV or 10/12 CV with 1726 cm³ and 12 CV or 16/20 CV with 2815 cm³ displacement .

A vehicle from this manufacturer can be viewed in the Koller Heldenberg Vintage Car Museum in Heldenberg .

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  Stimula from 1908

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  Stimula from 1912

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 3: P – Z. 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 : Stimula  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 18, 2013)

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 c d e f g h i j} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.