Delage Type B

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Type B
Production period: 1905-1908
Class : Small car
Body versions : Phaeton
Engines: Otto engine :
0.5 liter
(4.5 hp)
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 1850 mm
Empty weight :

The Delage Type B was an early passenger car model from the French brand Delage . The manufacturer called it a voiturette .

description

The national registration authority tested the vehicle with the number 4 and granted approval on October 12, 1905. Delage offered the model from 1905 to 1908.

A single-cylinder engine of De Dion-Bouton powered vehicles. It had 84 mm bore and 90 mm stroke . This resulted in a displacement of 499 cm³ . The engine developed 4.5  hp . The maximum speed was given as 38 km / h.

The chassis came from Malicet & Blin . It had a track width of 1165 mm and a wheelbase of 1850 mm . The open body as a Phaeton offered space for two people.

The Delage Type A , also presented in 1905, was identical except for the more powerful engine.

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 period from 1905 to 1908. One vehicle still exists.

auction

The auction house Christie's in 1998 auctioned one as Type B designated Tonneau 1906, albeit with different motor data for 16,100 pounds sterling .

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

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).
  2. ↑ 1998 auction (accessed March 7, 2020)