Esculape

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Automobile Union
legal form
founding 1899
resolution 1899
Seat Paris , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Esculape from 1899 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf . There indicated with year of construction 1898.

Esculape was a French car brand.

Company history

The company Automobile Union of Paris began in 1899 with the production of automobiles . The brand name was Esculape . Production ended in the same year.

Other sources indicate that the production period was 1898 to 1900 or 1898 to 1902.

Models

The only model was a small car. It had a single cylinder engine of De Dion-Bouton 2.25 hp power at the rear. Alternatively, a motor with 2.75 hp was also available. A special feature was the water cooling of the engine block and the air cooling of the cylinder head . The transmission had two gears. The vehicle length was 210 cm and the vehicle width 135 cm. The maximum speed was given as 35 km / h.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed at the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse , France.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Esculape.
  • 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 , p. 506. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 255. (French)
  • David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 , p. 273. (English)
  • Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 , p. 574. (French)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Esculape.
  2. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 506. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 255. (French)
  4. ^ A b c David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 , p. 273 (English)
  5. ↑ Histomobile (French, accessed on 30 October 2016)
  6. ^ Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 , p. 574. (French)
  7. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed October 30, 2016)