Forges et fonderies A. Dalifol

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Forges et fonderies A. Dalifol
M. Dalifol & Cie.
legal form
founding 19th century
resolution 20th century
Seat Paris , France
management
  • A. Dalifol
  • M. Dalifol
Branch Metalworking , wrought iron products , iron foundry , automobiles

Forges et fonderies A. Dalifol , later M. Dalifol & Cie. was a French industrial metalworking and foundry company. His name is mentioned several times in connection with important inventions relating to early motor vehicles .

Company history

The company was based in Paris . It seems to have carried out mainly industrial forging and had a foundry "based on the American model". The exact year of foundation is not known, but it was in the 19th century. In 1876, Dalifol built a very innovative, steam-powered tram in collaboration with Amédée Bollée père (1844–1917) . The company owner died in 1888 and his only 21-year-old son took over the management. In the 1890s the company traded as M. Dalifol & Cie. and experimented with automobiles and steam motorcycles , the latter probably under a German license from Heinrich and Wolfgang Hildebrand (1855–1928). The brand name was Dalifol . It is not known when the company was dissolved.

vehicles

tram

Dalifol tram (1876).

In 1875 A. Dalifol met Amédée Bollée père, a bell founder and designer of steam cars . Shortly before that, Bollée had caused quite a stir in Paris when he drove his steam car from his home town of Le Mans to the capital. A business collaboration was established and Dalifol built a steam-powered tram with 50 seats for the Compagnie des Omnibus de Paris based on Bollée's designs . The Dalifol rail bus was completed in 1876. It had a standing steam boiler in front and was laid out on two floors. The vehicle technology was very innovative, and the two-axle tram anticipated several very modern solutions: It had all-wheel drive by means of a steam engine attached to each wheel, all-wheel steering , power transmission with cardan shafts and independent suspension by means of telescopic tubes. The vehicle could even travel short distances without rails, for example to avoid obstacles, and to do this it carried a device for pulling out and in. Despite promising test drives, there was no series production.

motorcycles

The Hildebrand steam wheel was built in Germany in 1889 as a one-off and sold to Paris in 1893. At that time, the Hildebrands were already working on a gasoline-powered motorcycle. One source states that the Dalifol motorcycle was built between 1895 and 1900. The basis was a safety low wheel . A steam engine with a cylinder powered the rear wheel. Due to the high torque of the engine, the clutch , gearbox and transmission were not required. The 22 liter water tank was located in the rear fender .

The participation of such a steam wheel in the Brighton Emancipation Run from London to Brighton in 1896 is considered possible or certain. Other sources mean, however, that it was a different vehicle, namely the original Hildebrand .

According to one source, such a Dalifol vehicle still exists in a British museum, other sources mean, however, that it is a different vehicle. the Hildebrand .

A contemporary illustration suggests, however, that the production vehicles were based on a patent from a company Volta .

Automobiles

Car models developed according to sources only in 1896 or from 1895 to 1899. The vehicles had a lying-mounted gasoline engine .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 , p. 572. (French)
  2. ↑ a b Souvestre: La Histoire de l'automobile. 1907, p. 131. (French, accessed August 5, 2017)
  3. ↑ a b c d Hildebrand (also known as Dalifol and Brighton Steamer) on The A – Z of Motorcycles (English, accessed on August 5, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b c d Jan Spies: The Braunschweiger Hildebrand & Wolfmüller. Publications from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig. Volume 57, Braunschweig 1988, p. 9 ff.
  5. ↑ Gazoline: Bollée (Amédée), à ​​toute vapeur! (French, accessed August 5, 2017)
  6. ↑ a b Roger Hicks: The international encyclopedia. Motorcycles. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-613-02660-5 , p. 148.
  7. ↑ a b S. Ewald: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-5364-6 , p. 129.
  8. ^ A b David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 , p. 244. (English)
  9. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on August 5, 2017)
  10. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed August 5, 2017)