Gallica (automobile manufacturer)

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Gallica
legal form
founding 1920
resolution 1924
Seat Bordeaux
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Gallica was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Bordeaux company began producing automobiles in 1920. The brand name was Gallica . Production ended in 1924.

vehicles

The company used many parts from Automobiles Ford , which had had an assembly plant in Bordeaux since 1916 and produced the Ford Model T there. So the four-cylinder engine and the power transmission came from the Ford T. The front suspension, the grille and the bodies were different.

A vehicle from this manufacturer still exists. It has the Coupé de Ville body shape .

literature

  • 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.