Fondu

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Fondu from 1906

Fondu was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In 1906, Usines Fondu from Vilvoorde started producing automobiles. The developer of the automobiles was the Swiss Julien Potterat . Potterat left the company in 1908 and went to Russo-Balt . Production at Fondu ended in 1921.

vehicles

The first model was the 1 CHF , also called the 20/24 CV , which was powered by a four-cylinder engine with a 3770 cm³ displacement and had a cardan drive. In 1907 the model was replaced by the 24/30 CV , whose four-cylinder engine had a displacement of 4503 cm³. In addition, there was the large six-cylinder model 50 CV from 1907 to around 1908 . In 1912, smaller four-cylinder models with 1131 cm³ displacement, 1690 cm³ displacement and 2120 cm³ displacement came onto the market. After the First World War , a few four-cylinder models 8/10 CV were still produced.

One vehicle still exists today and can be viewed at the Autoworld Brussels car museum in Brussels .

License production

Russo-Balt manufactured the 24/30 CV model under license.

Parts sales

Fondu also produced and sold parts to other automobile manufacturers such as Elgé , FIF , Hermes , Linon , SAVA and Turner .

literature

Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian and Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-87057-001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-85120-090-9 (French)
George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)

Web links

Commons : Fondu vehicles - collection of images, videos and audio files

GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)