Delage Type DE

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Delage Type DE from 1923
Delage Type DE from 1923
Type DE
Production period: 1921-1923
Class : upper middle class
Body versions : Sedans , touring cars , roadsters
Engines: Otto engine :
2.1 liters
(32 hp)
Length: 4200 mm
Width: 1650 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 2980-3180 mm
Empty weight : Torpedo: 1385 kg
successor Delage Type DI
Delage Type DE as a roadster with a jump seat
Maurice Béquet drove this vehicle from Paris to Madrid in one day

The Delage Type DE was a car model from the French brand Delage .

description

The vehicle with the number 8138 was presented to the national registration authority and was registered on October 3, 1921. Delage offered the model from 1921 to 1923. It was the manufacturer's smallest model after the First World War and therefore had no direct predecessor. The successor was the Delage Type DI .

A four-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. It had a 72 mm bore and 130 mm stroke . This resulted in a displacement of 2117 cm³ . The engine was rated 11  Cheval fiscal and made 32  hp . In the UK he was rated 14 RAC Horsepower .

The chassis had a track width of 1320 mm . The wheelbase was 2980 mm for the normal version and 3180 mm for the long version. Another source gives a deviating 2980 mm for the sport, 3180 mm for the normal version and 3430 mm for the long version. The same source gives 4200 mm in length and 1650 mm in width, although it remains unclear which version this applied to. Four-door sedans , four-seat touring cars , roadsters and Brougham are known . As a torpedo , the curb weight was 1385 kg.

Races

Charles Belben and Paul Torchy fielded a vehicle in the 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans and finished 13th.

Maurice Béquet drove from Paris to Madrid in one day and covered the distance of 1380 km in 20:30 hours.

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. For this model he confirms the construction period from 1921 to 1923. Of the 3,600 vehicles produced, 63 still exist.

auction

Richard Edmonds Auctions auctioned a four-seat touring car from Australian coachbuilder Redwood Brown for £ 18,000 in June 2016 .

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 DE  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from Les Amis de Delage (PDF; French, accessed on January 20, 2020)
  2. ^ Daniel Cabart, Claude Rouxel, David Burgess-Wise: Delage. France's Finest Car . Volume 1. Dalton Watson, Deerfield 2007, ISBN 978-1-85443-219-3 , pp. 135 (English).
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ↑ Auction 2016 (accessed March 1, 2020)