Georges Irat

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Automobiles Georges Irat SA

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legal form SA
founding 1921
resolution 1949
Seat Levallois-Perret , France
management Georges Irat
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Georges Irat from 1927
Georges Irat from 1939
Ruby engine for 1935 and later models

Georges Irat was the founder of Automobiles Georges Irat SA , a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Georges Irat had been running the Automobiles Irat company in Paris since 1914 , but did not manufacture any vehicles there. In 1921 he founded Automobiles Georges Irat in Chatou and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Georges Irat . During the 1920s, annual production was around 200 vehicles. The company was located in Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1929 and in Levallois-Perret from 1935 . Production ended in 1949. Georges Irat then ran the Société Chérifienne George Irat in Casablanca .

Models

The first model had its own four-cylinder engine with a capacity of 2000 cc . In 1927 a six-cylinder model with a displacement of 3000 cc was added. From 1929 six-cylinder and were eight-cylinder engines from Lycoming used. In 1935 a front-wheel drive model was added, the 1100 cc engine was from Ruby . In 1939 another model appeared with the engine from the Citroën Traction Avant 11 CV , which had 1911 cc displacement. During the Second World War , some vehicles were equipped with electric motors.

In 1946 and 1949, prototype vehicles with a four-cylinder boxer engine with a displacement of 1100 cc and a light metal body appeared, although they no longer went into series production.

A vehicle of this brand was on view in the Motor Technica Museum Bad Oeynhausen in Bad Oeynhausen .

Sports successes

A team from Georges Irat competed in the opening race of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923 . Maurice Cappé and Jean Douarinou achieved 16th place overall on a Georges Irat 4 / A3. Georges Irat vehicles were entered in this endurance race until 1926 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Georges Irat.
  • 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 , pp. 617-618. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 290. (French)

Web links

Commons : Georges Irat  - 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 , chapter Georges Irat.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 617-618. (English)
  3. ↑ George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 290. (French)