Grégoire (make of car)
Automobiles Tracta SA | |
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legal form | Société Anonyme |
founding | 1945 |
resolution | 1972 |
Seat | Asnières-sur-Seine , France |
management | Jean-Albert Grégoire |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
Grégoire was a French car brand.
Company history
Jean-Albert Grégoire was an automotive engineer who designed many prototypes and who ran SA des Automobiles Tracta before World War II . In October 1947, he exhibited a prototype under his name at the Paris Motor Show , but it was not until 1956 that he began series production of vehicles that were marketed under his name. Production ended in 1972.
Automobiles
Grégoire R
This was a large front-wheel drive passenger car. Hotchkiss took over the project and marketed the vehicles as Hotchkiss-Grégoire from 1949 to 1954 .
Grégoire Sport
From 1956, Jean-Albert Grégoire continued the production of the Hotchkiss-Grégoire in a revised version in his company. Up to the end of production in 1962, around ten to fifteen copies were made.
Grégoire Charbonneaux
In 1969, four examples of a front-wheel drive delivery van with a Unilec electric motor were built . Until 1972, these delivery vans were produced in a small series of around 20 for the French Post .
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- GN Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present , Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 (English)
- René Bellu: Toutes les Voitures Françaises 1948 , Histoire & Collections, Paris 1998
- René Bellu: Toutes les Voitures Françaises 1957 , Histoire & Collections, Paris 1997
Web links
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)