Delage Type M

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Type M
Sales designation: Type M, Type M 3
Production period: 1909-1910
Class : Lower middle class
Body versions : Touring car , landaulet , phaeton
Engines:
Gasoline engine : 1.3-1.8 liters
(12.5-21 hp)
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase : 2350-2600 mm
Empty weight : Chassis : 980 kg
successor Delage Type R
Delage Type AC
Delage Type AE

The Delage Type M and the Delage Type M 3 variant were early passenger car models from the French brand Delage .

description

The national approval authority tested the Type M with the number 716 and the engine number 721 and granted the approval on March 27, 1909. The Type M 3 with the number 876 and the engine number 6049 followed on August 31, 1909. Delage offered the Type M from 1909 to 1910 and the Type M 3 only in 1910. The successors were the Delage Type R , Type AC and Type AE .

First, a driving four-cylinder engine of Chapuis-Dornier to the vehicles. It had either a 62 or 65 mm bore and 110 mm stroke . This resulted in 1328 and 1460 cm³ displacement . The engines were rated 8  Cheval fiscal and made 12.5 or 14  hp . A four-cylinder De Dion-Bouton engine was used in the second series . It had 66 mm bore, 100 mm stroke, 1368 cm³ displacement, 8 CV and 13.5 hp. The third series had a four-cylinder engine, which was called Delage, but was a development by Établissements Ballot , and was produced in equal numbers by Ballot and Delage. 65 mm bore, 120 mm stroke, 1593 cm³ displacement, 9 CV and 16.5 HP power were his data. Finally, in 1910, there was still the Type M 3 , for which the name Series 3b can also be found. It had a Type 4 F 2 Ballot engine, also called a Delage. With the same stroke, an enlarged bore of 70 mm resulted in a displacement of 1847 cm³, 10 or 11 CV and 21 hp.

The chassis had a track width of 1280 mm . There was a choice of two wheelbases of 2350 mm and 2600 mm. The double phaeton , landaulet and phaeton have survived .

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 1909 to 1910. One vehicle still exists.

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).