Gillet Forest

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Société Gillet-Forest
legal form
founding 1889
resolution 1907 or 1908
Seat Saint-Cloud , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer , commercial vehicle manufacturer

The Société Gillet-Forest was a French manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles .

Company history

The company was founded in Saint-Cloud in 1889 . In 1900 the construction of automobiles began, later also of trucks and buses . Initially, steam engines were used, and from 1902 internal combustion engines were used.

Production ended in 1907 or 1908.

vehicles

steam

The steam-powered models had a semicircular hood tapering into a "shovel nose" at the front. The condenser was located underneath. Gillet-Forest used a water-saving system in which the cooling water was fed in a spiral pipe around the steam boiler; the pipe, partially visible from the front, resembled the water cooler of a vehicle with a combustion engine. The water recovered in the condenser was fed into the cylinder head of the steam engine; excess water ended up in a water tank in the stern. Both passenger cars and trucks with steam engines were produced.

petrol

This was followed by models with single-cylinder and two-cylinder - internal combustion engines , their power, first as a source of drive chains transferred to the rear axle. According to this information, versions with 6/7 CV, 9/10 CV and 12 CV power were available; it was not until 1904 that the cardan drive was converted. According to other information, the passenger cars had a cardan shaft from the start .

In 1904, a larger four-cylinder model with chain drive replaced or supplemented the previous models. The motors used were manufactured under a license from Métallurgique . An evaporative cooler was used until 1905, and a normal cooling system was not used until 1905 .

A vehicle of this brand occasionally competes in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

commercial vehicles

In 1902 six different commercial vehicle models with 6/7 CV, 9/10 CV and 12 CV power and payloads between 300 kg and 3 t were listed. In 1905 a 12 CV was introduced, whose single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4.6 liters (145 mm bore and 170 mm stroke ) was probably one of the largest of its kind in a road vehicle. The vehicle had a shaft drive. In 1906, this engine even powered a truck with a 2 t payload. The four-cylinder with 108 mm bore and 140 mm stroke (displacement 8407 cm³) remained in the program until 1905 or 1906.

Commercial vehicle production may have ended earlier than car construction.

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)
  • GN Georgano (Editor), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles ; MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI (1979); ISBN 0-87341-024-6 ; Hardcover

Web links

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. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Georgiano / Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles (1979), pp. 280-281