Gauthier et Cie

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Gauthier et Cie
G. Gauthier
legal form
founding 1904
resolution 1937
Seat Blois , France
management Gauthier
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Gauthier tricycle from 1925

Gauthier et Cie was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The engineer Gauthier founded the company in La Garenne-Colombes in 1904 and began producing automobiles. In 1933 the company was renamed G. Gauthier and moved to Blois . In 1937, production ended after around 350 copies had been made.

vehicles

Light tricycle cars were offered with the single wheel at the rear. Sometimes the model names L'Auto-Plume Cabri or L'Auto-Fauteuil were used. Both air-cooled and water-cooled single - cylinder engines with 350 cm³, 400 cm³, 500 cm³ and 550 cm³ displacement were available . There was also the Avionette model between 1918 and 1927 . It was a cycle car . A V2 engine provided the drive .

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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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.