Léon Laisne

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SA of the Anciens Établissements Léon Laisne
legal form SA
founding 1913
resolution 1940
Seat Nantes
management Léon Laisne
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The SA des Anciens Établissements Léon Laisne was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Leon Laisne (born 1880, died about 1946), who previously for Hurtu and Automobiles Leon Bollee worked, founded in 1913 in Douai , the company Léon Laisne & Cie Maschinenfabrik. Before the First World War he made a few vehicles. Series production began in Nantes in 1919 . In the mid-1920s, the company employed around 100 people, around half of whom worked in the automotive industry. 1926 Murray Harris supported the company financially. The new company name was Automobiles Harris-Léon Laisne and the brand name Harris-Léon Laisne . About 150 vehicles were sold under this brand name. After the partners separated in 1931, the company was called SA des Anciens Établissements Léon Laisne and the brand name was again Léon Laisne . Automobile production ended in 1937. In 1940 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Léon Laisne

Only prototypes were made of this . A vehicle of this brand was on display at the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris .

Harris-Léon Laisne

Models with various built-in motors were on offer . The choice was between four-cylinder engines con SCAP cc with 1170 and 1390 cc displacement , six-cylinder engines of CIME with 1215 cc and 1491 cc capacity and eight-cylinder - line engines of SCAP with 1492 cc and 1808 cc. In 1930 the Type V added to the range. A six-cylinder engine from Hotchkiss with a displacement of 3000 cm³ or an engine from Continental provided the drive.

Léon Laisne

Some of the previous models were still offered. There was also a prototype with front-wheel drive and attempts to equip the Type V with eight-cylinder engines from Delage or Ford .

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)

Web links

  • Photo (accessed March 29, 2013)

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.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.