Henriod Frères

Henriod Frères
legal form
founding	1896
resolution	1898
Seat	Biel / Bienne , Switzerland
management	Fritz Henriod and Charles-Edouard Henriod
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Henriod Frères was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Fritz Henriod had already made a steam car in 1886 and a gasoline-powered automobile in 1893. In 1896 he and his younger brother Charles-Edouard Henriod founded the company for the production of automobiles in Biel / Bienne . The brand name was Henriod . Production ended in 1898. Charles-Edouard Henriod moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine and founded Henriod et Cie . Fritz Henriod founded the Société Neuchâteloise d'Automobiles in Boudry in 1903 .

A Henriod two-seater from 1898 with two cylinders and six hp

Sectional view of a rotary valve engine by Charles-Edouard Henriod

vehicles

The steam car presented in 1886 was a tricycle . The boiler was mounted in the stern. This vehicle remained a one-off and later burned down.

The gasoline-powered vehicle from 1893 had a single-cylinder engine and a two-speed transmission. It was exhibited in the body shape of a four-seater Victoria at the national exhibition in 1895 . The first series models were created on the basis of this car. Air- cooled one- and two-cylinder engines with 4 to 10 HP power were used, which were mounted in the rear.

In 1898 a front-wheel drive vehicle was created . Charles-Edouard Henriod drove to Paris in such a car . The French press called this a sensation .

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 : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
• Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6

Web links

Commons : Henriod  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 19, 2012)
• conceptcarz.com about the Henriod brand and a surviving Henriod 'Duc' from 1897 (English, accessed on March 26, 2012)
• Photo of a surviving vehicle (accessed April 15, 2012)

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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. 2001.