Delfosse et Cie

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Delfosse et Compagnie
legal form
founding 1922
resolution 1926
Seat Cambrai
management Charles Delfosse
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Delfosse et Compagnie was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Delfosse (1895–1993) founded the company in Cambrai in 1922 to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Delfosse . Production ended in 1926. A total of around 160 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first models were equipped with a two-cylinder engine from Automobiles MS with a displacement of around 1000 cm³ and a four-cylinder engine from Chapuis-Dornier with a displacement of 961 cm³. About 20 of these two models were made. From 1923 there were sporty small cars with four-cylinder built-in engines with 1099 cm³, 1203 cm³ and 1496 cm³ displacement, which were mainly supplied by CIME and occasionally by Altos .

The rear suspension consisted of an unusual combination of half- and Viertelelliptik - leaf springs .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
  • Pierre Dumont: French Cars from 1920 to 1925. Frederick Warne, London 1978, ISBN 0-7232-2116-2 . (English)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.