Derby (make of car)

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Établissements Bertrand Montet
legal form
founding 1912
resolution 1936
Seat Courbevoie
management Bertrand Montet, Georges Goëtt
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Derby from 1922
Derby from 1927

Derby was a French car brand.

Company history

Bernard Montet (1878–1928) and Georges Goëtt founded the mechanical engineering company Établissements Bertrand Montet in Courbevoie in 1912 . In 1921 the production of automobiles began , which were marketed as Derby and in England from 1927 to 1930 as Vernon Derby. Production ended in 1936.

vehicles

First model: Cyclecar

The first model D 2 was a cycle car . An air-cooled V2 engine from Harley-Davidson with a displacement of 998 cc provided the drive . The engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle and drove the rear axle without differential via a cardan shaft . The transmission had three gears. The body offered space for two people. The vehicle length was 240 cm, the vehicle width 110 cm and the curb weight 340 kg. The design-related top speed was 60 km / h. Due to the low weight and the small displacement of less than 1100 cm³, the vehicles in France were classified in the cheap Cyclecar tax class.

Later models: Voiturettes

The later models were heavier. They exceeded the weight limit of 350 kg for cycle cars and were therefore referred to as voiturettes . Built-in motors from Chapuis-Dornier , CIME , Ruby , Salmson and SCAP were used. Most of the models had four-cylinder engines , but six-cylinder engines were also used from 1928 onwards. Eight-cylinder engines were also used in the front-wheel drive models from 1931 to 1933 .

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Automobile Museum Col·lecció d'Automòbils de Salvador Claret in Sils .

Licensing

Fabbrica Automobili Officine Trubetzkoy from Milan manufactured models under license between 1924 and 1926 and marketed them as Fadin .

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)
  • Bernhard Brägger , Daniel Reinhard , Uli Jooss, Urs Heer: The Rapid Twenties. History of cyclecars and voiturettes. SP Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-9809409-2-6

Web links

Commons : Derby  - 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. ↑ a b c d e f g h Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Brägger, Reinhard, Jones and Heer: The Fast Twenties. History of cyclecars and voiturettes. 2005.