Delage Type DM

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Delage Type DM from 1928
Delage Type DM from 1928
Type DM
Sales designation: Type DM, Type DMN , Type DMS
Production period: 1926-1929
Class : upper middle class
Body versions : Sedan , touring car , coupé , convertible , roadster
Engines: Otto engine :
3.2 liters
(62–78 hp)
Length: 4800 mm
Width: 1650 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 3210-3500 mm
Empty weight : 1500 kg
successor Delage Type D.6
Delage Type DM as a sedan with six side windows
Delage Type DMN

The Delage Type DM was a series of passenger cars from the French brand Delage . In addition to the basic type, it included Delage Type DMN and Delage Type DMS .

description

The national licensing authority granted approval for the basic type on February 9, 1926. No further approvals are known for the variants. Delage offered the models from 1926 to 1929. There was no direct predecessor. The successor was the Delage Type D.6 .

A six-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. It had a 75 mm bore and 120 mm stroke . This resulted in a displacement of 3181 cm³ and a tax classification of 17  Cheval fiscal . The engine developed 62  HP in the versions Type DM and Type DMN and 78 HP in the sports version Type DMS .

The Type DM had a chassis with a 1420 mm track width and 3500 mm wheelbase . When Type DMN is the front track was 1380 mm and rear 1320 mm, the wheelbase 3390 mm. The type DMS had a uniform track width of 1380 mm and was shorter with a wheelbase of 3210 mm. One source gives 4800 mm vehicle length, 1650 mm vehicle width and 1500 kg empty weight .

The vehicles were available as sedans , touring cars , coupes , convertibles and roadsters .

additional

Video of the assassination

King Alexander I (Yugoslavia) and the French politician Louis Barthou were assassinated on October 9, 1934 . They were shot in a delage. According to a source, it was the Delage Type DM with serial number 29,610. The vehicle was first registered on July 13, 1933 in the Seine-et-Oise department . On December 13th of the same year it was bought by Charles Cornet from Marseille , who ran a workshop there together with Georges Perini. The vehicle received the French license plate 6068 CA 6 . On certain occasions, the vehicle was loaned to authorities. In another source, however, a Delage Type D.8 is mentioned.

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 Type DM and Type DMN he confirms the construction period from 1926 to 1929. Of 2227 vehicles produced, 69 still exist. Of 340 type DMS produced from the construction period from March 1927 to May 1929, 21 are known.

auction

On February 7, 2020, Artcurial auctioned a Type DMN as a faux convertible by Autobineau from 1929 for 33,376 euros .

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 DM  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre Lachet: Technical data on the Autocyber page (French, accessed February 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. 274 (English).
  3. ↑ Chroniques marseillaises des années trente (French, accessed February 8, 2020)
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ↑ Auction 2020 (English and French, accessed March 1, 2020)