German & Bonnet

Automobiles DB
legal form
founding	1938
resolution	1961
Seat	Champigny-sur-Marne
management	Charles Deutsch , René Bonnet
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Panhard DB Le Mans 1960

DB HBR5 from 1959

Automobiles DB , also known as Deutsch & Bonnet and Deutsch et Bonnet , was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Charles Deutsch inherited an automobile workshop from his father and sold it to René Bonnet in 1932 . In 1938 they jointly founded the Automobiles DB company for automobile production in Champigny-sur-Marne . One source states that Deutsch was only involved unofficially because as a civil servant he had no right to participate in a company. The brand names were DB and Deutsch & Bonnet . Road vehicles were not built until after the Second World War . In 1961 the partners separated and dissolved the company. Deutsch then founded Automobiles Charles Deutsch and Bonnet Automobiles René Bonnet .

vehicles

The company introduced lightweight sports car with fiberglass -bodies ago, the most of Panhard - Boxer engines were driven. DB participated intensively in competitions, in particular the 24 Hours of Le Mans . Charles Deutsch designed some bodies with very effective aerodynamics , which helped the DB racing cars achieve high top speeds despite their small Panhard boxer engine.

Deutsch and Bonnet were in constant discussion about whether they should build vehicles with front-wheel drive or mid-engine .

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)

Web links

Commons : Deutsch & Bonnet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vintage European Automobiles (accessed April 4, 2013)
• Deutsch-Bonnet in Citroenet (English, accessed April 4, 2013)
• DB Enthusiast website (French, accessed April 4, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .