Fernand Charron (automobile manufacturer)

Fernand Charron
legal form
founding	1912
resolution	1922
Seat	Courbevoie
management	Fernand Charron
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Ferenc Szisz on Alda at the 1914 French Grand Prix

Fernand Charron next to an Alda in the same race

Fernand Charron was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Fernand Charron , one of the founders of Automobiles Charron , took over the ENV plant in 1912 and founded the company that bore his name in Courbevoie to manufacture automobiles. The brand name was Alda , short for A h, l a D élicieuse A utomobile. From 1920 the vehicles were manufactured at Farman in Billancourt . Production ended in 1922.

vehicles

The four-cylinder model 15 CV with a displacement of 3187 cm³ was produced from 1912 to 1914. There was also the 25 CV from 1912 to 1913 . Between 1919 and 1922 the 20.1 CV model with a displacement of 3563 cm³ was offered.

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)

Web links

Commons : Fernand Charron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 8, 2013)
• Photo (accessed March 8, 2013)

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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.