Jeanperrin

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Jeanperrin Frères
legal form
founding 1880s
resolution 1910
Seat Glay
management Jeanperrin
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Jeanperrin from 1899
Jeanperrin from 1899

Jeanperrin Frères was a French manufacturer of bicycles , motorcycles and automobiles .

Company history

Louis Jeanperrin founded the company in Glay in the 1880s . In 1890 the production of bicycles began. From 1892 motorcycles and from 1894 automobiles were produced. Louis Jeanperrin died in January 1905 and his son continued to run the company. However, motor vehicle production ended. In 1910 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

There was a motorcycle model with a two-stroke engine with 280 cm³ displacement and 2 hp . The automobiles were equipped with single-cylinder engines. There was the body shape vis-à-vis .

A car from this manufacturer is on display in the Gianadda Foundation in Martigny . Another was in a car museum in Muriaux , and according to the museum, a third vehicle exists in the United States .

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)

Web links

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

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 c d Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.