Hippolyte Lepape

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Hippolyte Lepape
legal form
founding around 1896
resolution 1906
Seat Paris or Puteaux
management Hippolyte Lepape
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Hippolyte Lepape was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Hippolyte Lepape founded the company that bore his name in Paris or Puteaux around 1896 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Lepape . Production ended in 1906. Overall, the company only sold a few vehicles.

vehicles

The first model was a six-wheeler with two driven front wheels. A three - cylinder radial engine with 6 hp provided the drive . In 1901, a small car with a single-cylinder engine and 5 hp and a tricycle with an air-cooled single-cylinder engine were presented at the Paris Motor Show. The tricycle was available both as a single-seater with a loading area and with two seats next to each other. In 1906 a model followed with a front engine, power transmission by means of belts and a four-seater tonneau body.

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)

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 c d e f g h Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.