Delage Type D 6-3 liters

Delage
Delage Type D 6-3 liters from Letourneur et Marchand
Type D 6-3 liters
Production period:	1939-1954
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	Limousine , Pullman limousine , coupé , convertible , roadster
Engines:	Otto engine : 3.0 liters (82-90 hp)
Length:	4800-5150 mm
Width:	1650-1720 mm
Height:	1550 mm
Wheelbase :	3150-3300 mm
Empty weight :	1650-1850 kg
Previous model	Delage Type D.6.75

Delage D 6-3 liters as a convertible from 1947

The Delage Type D 6-3 Liters was the last car model from the French brand Delage . There is also the notation Delage Type D6 3L .

description

The vehicle with the number 51.731 received approval from the national registration authority on April 11, 1939 on behalf of this model. Delage initially offered the model in 1939 and again until 1954 after the war-related interruption. The predecessor was the Delage Type D.6.75 . With this model the vehicle construction at Delage ended.

The vehicles after the Second World War were given chassis numbers 880,000 to 880,330.

A six-cylinder engine powered the vehicles. It had 83.7 mm bore and 90.5 mm stroke . This resulted in a displacement of 2988 cm³ and a tax classification of 17  Cheval fiscal . The engine initially made 90  hp , later 82 hp. The Olympic had a little more power.

The chassis initially had a track width of 1458 mm and a wheelbase of 3150 mm . After the Second World War, the track width was 1460 mm and the wheelbase was optionally 3150 mm or 3300 mm. According to a source, the vehicles were 1720 mm wide and weighed around 1650 kg. Another source initially names 4800 mm and 4950 mm vehicle length, 1650 mm vehicle width, 1550 mm vehicle height and 1650 kg curb weight . From model year 1950, the vehicles were up to 5000 mm long. From model year 1953, 5000 mm and 5150 mm length, 1720 mm width, 1550 mm height and 1650 kg to 1850 kg empty weight are specified.

As body structures are sedan , Pullman sedan , coupe , convertible and roadster known.

Races

Racing cars were also created on the same basis. They were given chassis numbers 51.820 to 51.821 and 880.001 to 880.005.

date	event	place	report	driver	Result
05/21/1939	Grand Prix d'Anvers	Antwerp		Georges Monneret	place 3
June 17-18, 1939	Le Mans 24 hour race, 1939	Le Mans		Louis Gérard / Georges Monneret Roger Loyer / Armand Hug	2nd place and class winner target not achieved
08/06/1939	Grand Prix du Comminges	Saint-Gaudens		Louis Gérard Georges Monneret	4th place target not achieved
04/28/1940	Mille Miglia 1940	Brescia		Gianfranco Comotti / Rosa Piero Taruffi / Luigi Chinetti	Target not achieved Target not achieved
04/07/1947	Grand Prix de Pau	Pau	Ecurie Gersac	Pierre Levegh Jean Achard Philippe Étancelin / Georges Grignard	2nd place 4th place 5th place
04/27/1947	Grand Prix du Roussillon	Perpignan	Ecurie Gersac	Henri Louveau Pierre Levegh Jean Achard Philippe Étancelin	2nd place 4th place Target not achieved Target not achieved
05/08/1947	Jersey Road Race	St. Helier	Ecurie Gersac	Pierre Levegh Henri Louveau Jean Achard	5th place 7th place 8th
05/18/1947	Grand Prix de Marseille	Marseille	Ecurie Gersac	Henri Louveau Pierre Levegh Jean Achard Philippe Étancelin	3rd place 4th place 6th place Target not achieved
06/01/1947	Grand Prix de Nîmes	Nîmes	Ecurie Gersac	Philippe Étancelin Jean Achard Henri Louveau Maurice Trintignant	all not in the target
06/08/1947	Swiss Grand Prix 1947	Bremgarten near Bern	Ecurie Gersac	Henri Louveau Ernst Hürzeler Maurice Trintignant Robert Klempener Roger Loyer	12th place 14th place Target not achieved Eliminated in the preliminary run eliminated in the preliminary run
06/08/1947	Challenges de l'ACIF et de l'AGACI	Montlhéry	Ecurie Gersac	Maurice Varet	1st place
06/29/1947	Belgian Grand Prix 1947	Spa Francorchamps	Ecurie Gersac	Maurice Trintignant Henri Louveau Pierre Levegh	5th place not in the finish not in the finish
07/06/1947	Grand Prix de Reims	Reims-Gueux	Ecurie Gersac	Maurice Trintignant / Henri Louveau	not at the finish (alternates behind the wheel)
08/03/1947	Grand Prix d'Alsace	Strasbourg-Neudorf	Henri Louveau	Maurice Varet	not in target
08/10/1947	Grand Prix du Comminges	St. Gaudens	Henri Louveau	Maurice Varet / Henri Louveau	11th place (alternates behind the wheel)
07.09.1947	1947 Italian Grand Prix	Fiera Camponaria , Milan	Henri Louveau Giovanni Bracco	Henri Louveau Giovanni Bracco	6th place not in the finish
11/16/1947	Coupe du salon	Linas-Montlhéry	Henri Louveau	Alexandre Constantin	4th place
05/02/1948	Grand Prix des Nations	Geneva	Henri Louveau	Henri Louveau	5th place
May 16, 1948	Grand Prix des Frontières	Chimay	Henri Louveau	Henri Louveau	place 2
05/30/1948	Grand Prix de Paris	Linas-Montlhéry	Marc Versini Auguste Veuillet Henri Louveau	Marc Versini Auguste Veuillet Edmond Mouche	12th place not in the finish not in the finish
June 10-11, 1948	Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race 1948	Spa Francorchamps		Auguste Veuillet / Maurice Varet	6th place and class winner
09/12/1948	Paris 12 hour race	Montlhéry		Henri Louveau / Robert Brunet Marc Versini / Pierre Levegh	2nd place 4th place
10/10/1948	Coupe Robert Mazaud	Montlhéry		Henri Louveau Louis Gérard	1st place 2nd place
10/10/1948	Coupe du salon	Montlhéry	Marc Versini	Marc Versini	7th place
04/24/1949	Grand Prix de Paris	Montlhéry	Marc Versini Henri Louveau	Marc Versini Henri Louveau	4th place not in the finish
05/08/1949	Grand Prix du Roussillon	Perpignan		Henri Louveau / Paco Godia	10th place (alternates behind the wheel)
June 25-26, 1949	Le Mans 24 hour race 1949	Le Mans		Henri Louveau / Juan Jover Louis Gérard / Paco Godia Marc Versini / Gaston Serraud Auguste Veuillet / Edmond Mouche	2nd place and 4th place in the class . Goal not achieved. Goal not achieved
July 9-10, 1949	Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race 1949	Spa Francorchamps		Henri Louveau / Edmond Mouche	place 2
08/07/1949	1949 French Grand Prix	Saint-Gaudens		Henri Louveau Auguste Veuillet	5th place 6th place
08/21/1949	Course de Bellevue	Moulins		Louis Gérard Marc Versini Maurice Varet	1st place 2nd place in the racing class 3rd place in the sport class
08/21/1949	Course de Bellevue	Moulins		Louis Gérard Marc Versini Maurice Varet	1st place 2nd place in the sport class 3rd place in the racing class
September 18, 1949	Circuit de Sarrebruck	Saarbrücken	Auguste Veuillet	Auguste Veuillet / Paris Valentin Haser ? a	3rd place ?
10/09/1949	Coupe du salon	Linas-Montlhéry	Louis Gérard Marc Versini Henri Louveau	Louis Gérard / Maurice Varet Marc Versini / Jean Lucas	5th place 7th place 8th
March 26, 1950	Coupe ACIF USA	Montlhéry		Louis Gérard Marc Versini	2nd place 3rd place
04/30/1950	Grand Prix de Paris	Montlhéry	Louis Gérard Marc Versini Auguste Veuillet	Louis Gérard Marc Versini Auguste Veuillet	2nd place 3rd place not in the finish
May 28, 1950	Doullens hill climb	Doullens		Blanchi Louis Gérard	1st place in the sport class 3rd place in the racing class
June 24-25, 1950	Le Mans 24 hour race 1950	Le Mans		Henri Louveau / Jean Estager	7th place
07/23/1950	Paris 12 hour race	Montlhéry		Louis Gérard / De St. Didier	place 2
07/30/1950	Grand Prix de Rouen-les-Essarts	Rouen-les-Essarts		Henri Louveau Louis Gérard Auguste Veuillet	4th place 5th place 9th place
10/08/1950	Coupe du salon	Montlhéry		Louis Gérard Jean Blanc	2nd place 2nd place in the class up to 3 liters displacement
05/20/1951	Grand Prix de Paris du Bimillénaire	Bois de Boulogne	Louis Gérard	Louis Gérard	8th place
06/17/1951	1951 Portuguese Grand Prix	postage		Charles Pozzi	13th place
07.10.1951	Coupe du salon	Montlhéry		Marc Versini	place 3
03/30/1952	Coupe de Vitesse	Montlhéry		Eminent	3rd place in class
04/12/1953	Coupe de Vitesse	Montlhéry		Eminent	place 2
05/31/1953	Coupe de Paris	Montlhéry		Mrs. Foufounis	place 3
04/26/1954	Coupe de Paris	Montlhéry		Mrs. Foufounis	3rd place in class

Source, unless otherwise stated:

^a After, Haser's participation in Delage is not understandable

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 after the takeover by Automobiles Delahaye are unknown. For this model, he gives the construction time from 1939 to 1953. 80 vehicles still exist.

Auctions

A coach from 1939 was in 2019 by Bonhams for 74,750 euros at auction. In 2020, an ordinary four-door sedan brought in 19,072 euros.

The racing car with the chassis number 880.003 was auctioned by Bonhams on February 6, 2014 for 1,092,500 euros. Artcurial offered the same vehicle on July 9, 2016, but was unable to auction it at an estimated price of 1,200,000 to 1,400,000 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 D 6-3 Liters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Allen Brown, David McKinney, Rob Ryder, Adam Ferrington: The David McKinney Archive: 4.5-liter / 1.5-liter s / c Formula 1 (1949-1953) (accessed March 29, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pierre Lachet: Technical data on the Autocyber page (French, accessed on February 22, 2020)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s} Alessandro Silva: Back on Track - Racing in the 1940s , Fondazione Negri, Brescia 2019, ISBN 88-89108-40-6 (English).
3. ↑ Allen Brown, David McKinney, Rob Ryder, Adam Ferrington: The David McKinney Archive: 4.5-liter / 1.5-liter s / c Formula 1 (1949-1953) (accessed March 29, 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. 14-24 (English).
5. ^ 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).
6. ↑ Auction 2019 (English and French, accessed on March 1, 2020)
7. ↑ Auction 2020 (English and French, accessed March 1, 2020)
8. ↑ Auction 2014 (English and French, accessed March 1, 2020)
9. ↑ Auction 2016 (English and French, accessed March 1, 2020)