Faget & Varnet

Faget & Varnet
legal form
founding	Before 1939
resolution	1953
Seat	Levallois-Perret , France
management	Jean Faget, Henri Varnet
Branch	Body shop

Faget & Varnet (alternatively: Faget-Varnet ) was a French manufacturer of automobile bodies , which was based in Levallois-Perret . The company was active in the passenger car sector for a short period after the Second World War .

Company history

Dehahaye 135 MS with a coupé body from Faget & Varnet

The heck of the same Delahaye

The company was founded by Jean Faget and Henri Varnet. The exact date of foundation is unknown; What is certain, however, is that Faget & Varnet manufactured superstructures for commercial vehicles before the Second World War. Other coachbuilders such as Aubertin and Franay also had their headquarters in the same place near Paris .

During the war, Faget & Varnet developed an all-steel body that dispensed with the previously common use of a wooden frame in favor of a sheet steel frame and thus enabled a weight saving of 30 to 35 percent compared to conventional constructions. In 1945 the company presented based on a chassis from Renault a taxi -Karosserie front with a steel frame. However, this design was not taken over into series production. From 1948 Faget & Varnet offered bodies for luxury cars with steel frames. First and foremost, the company bodyworked Delahaye chassis . Stylistically, it was based on Saoutchik's designs , but in the opinion of observers did not achieve their perfection.

Most of the models have classic looking bodies with a tall, narrow radiator grille and offset front and rear fenders . From around 1951 with the introduction of the Delahaye 235 , Faget & Varnet also made the transition to the pontoon body . In addition to Chapron , Beutler and Carrozzeria Motto / Charbonneaux , the company from Levallois-Perret bodyworked several of the only around 85 vehicles. Faget & Varnet clad the 235 model with a streamlined , completely smooth coupé body with fully clad rear wheels.

In 1953 Faget & Varnet ceased operations. The body manufacturer Gramond from Bordeaux also produced its own bodies based on the Faget & Varnet model for regional customers.

literature

Serge Bellu: A French Touch of Class. Les Ateliers de carrosserie français , Éditions Nicolas Chaudun 2012, ISBN 978-2-35039-136-6

Web links

Commons : Faget & Varnet Coachwork - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

A short history of Faget & Varnet on the website lautomobileancienne.com .
Brief overview of French car body manufacturers in the inter-war years .
Faget & Varnet on the oldtimer.400.pl web portal , accessed on April 18, 2017.

Individual evidence

^ History of Faget & Varnet on the website lautomobileancienne.com (accessed April 17, 2017).
^ ^A ^b Serge Bellu: A French Touch of Class. Les Ateliers de carrosserie français , Éditions Nicolas Chaudun 2012, ISBN 978-2-35039-136-6 , p. 201.
↑ ^a ^b Description of a Delahaye 125 M with a convertible body from Faget & Varnet on the website http://lautomobileancienne.com (accessed April 17, 2017).
^ Roger Gloor, All Cars of the 1950s, 1945–1960 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart. 1st edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-613-02808-1 , p. 127.

[Ancienne-1] History of Faget & Varnet on the website lautomobileancienne.com (accessed April 17, 2017).

[Bellu_201-2] A ^b Serge Bellu: A French Touch of Class. Les Ateliers de carrosserie français , Éditions Nicolas Chaudun 2012, ISBN 978-2-35039-136-6 , p. 201.

[Delahaye_135-3] Description of a Delahaye 125 M with a convertible body from Faget & Varnet on the website http://lautomobileancienne.com (accessed April 17, 2017).

[4] Roger Gloor, All Cars of the 1950s, 1945–1960 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart. 1st edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-613-02808-1 , p. 127.