Demeester

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Automobiles H. Demeester
legal form
founding 1905
resolution 1914
Seat Courbevoie , France
management Léon Demeester
Branch Automobile manufacturer

H. Demeester in one of his racing cars at the 1908 Grand Prix des Voiturettes

Automobiles H. Demeester was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Léon Demeester founded the company in Courbevoie in 1905 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Demeester . In 1914 production ended due to the war. Léon Demeester founded Jouffret in 1920 .

vehicles

Initially, vehicles with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines were produced. In 1908 and 1909 a racing car with a four- cylinder built- in Sultan engine took part in car races. In 1912 only the four-cylinder models 10 CV , 12 CV and 16 CV were produced. From 1913 there was the small four-cylinder model 8 CV , which corresponded to a model by Sinpar .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975 (French).

Web links

Commons : Demeester  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
  3. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975 (French).