Delage Type AC

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Delage Type AC
Delage Type AC
Type AC
Production period: 1910
Class : Lower middle class
Body versions : Touring car , Phaeton
Engines: Otto engine :
1.5 liters
(15 hp)
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 2750 mm
Empty weight : 1125 kg
Previous model Delage Type M
Side view

The Delage Type AC was an early passenger car model from the French brand Delage .

description

The national registration authority examined the vehicle with the number 1110 and the engine number 2072 and granted the approval on April 29, 1910. Delage only offered the model in 1910. Predecessor was the Delage Type M .

A four-cylinder engine from Établissements Ballot powered the vehicles. It had a 65 mm bore and 110 mm stroke . This resulted in a displacement of 1460 cm³ . He was classified with 8  Cheval fiscal and made 15  HP .

The chassis had a track width of 1280 mm and a wheelbase of 2750 mm . A torpedo with four seats is reported. The curb weight was given as 1125 kg. There is also a two-seater Phaeton .

Delage Type AB , Type AC, Type AD , Type AE and Type AH had a similar or even identical chassis. The main difference was in the engine used.

Numbers of units and surviving vehicles

Peter Jacobs from the Delage Register of Great Britain compiled an overview of production figures and the number of vehicles that still exist in October 2006. His information on the construction times differ in some cases from the information given by the book authors. Numbers of the models before the First World War are unknown. For this model he confirms the construction time in 1910. Two vehicles still exist.

literature

  • Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 (English).

Web links

Commons : Delage Type AC  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 2. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 13 (English).