Gendron et Compagnie

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Gendron et Compagnie
legal form
founding 1910s
resolution 1928
Seat Paris
management Marcel Gendron, Marcel Michelot
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Gendron et Compagnie was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Marcel Gendron founded the company in the 1910s. Marcel Michelot was the commercial director. The company's headquarters were at 38 Rue Guersant in Paris . The aim was to produce parts for automobiles such as transmissions , rear axles and steering columns . In 1922 the automobile industry was added. The brand name was GM , short for G Endron and M ichelot. Two sources state that Gendron was also used as a brand name. Production ended in 1928.

vehicles

In 1922 only prototypes were made . For driving a saw four-cylinder engine from Janvier with T-head . The displacement was either 2815 cm³ or 3620 cm³.

Series production began in 1924. The first model was the GC 1 . A built-in engine from CIME powered the vehicle and all subsequent series models. The displacement was 1098 cm³. The transmission had three gears. The choice was between touring cars and sedans . Four-speed transmissions were available from 1927.

The GC 2 was only built in 1925. A motor with OHC valve control and 1494 cm³ displacement provided the drive. Compared to the GC 1 , the wheelbase was lengthened.

The GC 6 , also called GM Six , appeared in 1927 and was presented at the Paris Motor Show. A six-cylinder engine with side valves and a displacement of 1215 cm³ propelled the vehicle.

1928 sparked GC 3 to GC 1 from. The engine now had a displacement of 1203 cm³.

Four GM automobiles should still exist: two, including a GC 2 , in the Musée Automobile de la Sarthe in Le Mans , a limousine in Switzerland and a convertible in Germany.

motor race

Some of the cars also took part in auto races such as the Le Mans 24 Hours . At the 1925 race in Le Mans , Marcel Gendron himself competed with the famous flight pioneer and test pilot Lucien Bossoutrot as co-pilot with a GC 2 in class 1.5, but retired after 36 laps. The second GC 2 , with Marcel Michelot and Adrien Drancé , managed 101 laps and finished 15th . Gendron and Michelot had again entered two cars for the 24-hour race of 1927 , but Michelot had a fatal accident during test driving a week before the start, whereupon Gendron withdrew his own report.

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)
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X . (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c 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 d e f g h i j Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ a b Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry.
  5. ↑ Marcel Gendron took part again 23 years later in the 24-hour race of Le Mans , this time with Jean Vinatier senior in a Renault 4CV ; the car retired with an ignition fault.