Genestin

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P. Genestin

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founding 1919
resolution 1929
Seat Fourmies
management Paul Génestin
Branch Automobile manufacturer

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P. Génestin was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Paul Génestin founded the company in Fourmies in 1919 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Génestin . After the first 15 vehicles there was a longer break. Production resumed in 1925 after meeting Mr. Poyet from CIME . Production ended in 1929.

vehicles

The first vehicles had a chassis from Malicet & Blin . Fivet provided the four-cylinder engine with side valves and 1,500 cc engine capacity . Bastien from the same place made the bodies .

From 1925 various models with different engines were available. The model Tourisme was with four different built-in motors available from CIME, the four-cylinder engine with 1100 cc displacement to the six-cylinder engine with 1681 cc capacity. Motors from SCAP were used in the Sport model . There were four-cylinder engines with 1084 cc and 1476 cc capacity, optionally also with the compressor , and a series - eight-cylinder engine with 1808 cc capacity.

At least two vehicles have been preserved. A vehicle from 1928 belongs to the collection of the Automobile Museum in Stainz.

  • Génestin from 1927

  • Génestin from 1928

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 2: G – O. 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 : Génestin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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