Georges Roy

Automobiles Georges Roy
legal form
founding	1906
resolution	around 1932
Seat	Bordeaux , France
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Georges Roy was a French manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles .

Company history

The Bordeaux company began producing automobiles and commercial vehicles in 1906. The brand name was Georges Roy . Passenger car production ended in 1930 and commercial vehicle production in 1931 or 1932.

vehicles

At the beginning there was a single-cylinder model with a displacement of 1100 cm³ , a two-cylinder model with a displacement of 2900 cm³ and a four-cylinder model with a displacement of 4600 cm³, each equipped with a three-speed gearbox. In 1907 a six-cylinder model with a displacement of 10,200 cc was added. In 1908, the range consisted of four-cylinder models with 2900 cm³, 3800 cm³ and 5900 cm³ and a six-cylinder model with 8500 cm³. In 1909 there were only the four-cylinder models from the previous year. In 1910 two new models were presented, the cylinder dimensions of which were identical: 80 mm cylinder bore and 110 mm piston stroke resulted in a displacement of 2212 cc for the four-cylinder engine and 3317 cc for the six-cylinder engine. In 1912 the 20 CV model appeared with a six-cylinder engine and 3600 cm³ displacement, and in 1913 a small model with 1500 cm³ displacement.

After the First World War , the OB model , also called 14 CV , appeared in 1919 with a displacement of 3000 cm³, which was further developed into OBD in 1923 . From 1920 there was also the smaller SB model , also known as 10 CV , with a four-cylinder engine, 1539 cm³ displacement and 21 hp , which was further developed into the SBD around 1923 .

Picture gallery

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  Georges Roy von (1909)

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  Georges Roy (1910)

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  George Roy (1912) from the Schlumpf Collection

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 : Georges Roy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 10, 2013)

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