La Française

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Hammond, Mouter et Cie
Société La Française
legal form Société
founding 1889
resolution 1956
Seat Paris , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Société La Française was a French manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Cycles La Française share from May 19, 1919

The Hammond, Mouter et Cie company , later renamed Société La Française , was founded in Paris in 1889 to manufacture bicycles. Motorcycles followed later. In 1901 the production of automobiles began . Automobile production initially ended in 1906. The brand name of the automobiles was mostly Diamant , rarely La Française . Automobiles were built again between 1912 and 1913, this time being marketed as Hammond Mouter . The motorcycle production ran under the brand name La Française-Diamant until 1956 .

Automobiles

Initially there were the 5 CV and 7 CV models with single-cylinder engines , 9 CV with two-cylinder engines and 12 CV , which had a two- or four-cylinder engine depending on the source . In 1904 the 24 CV with four-cylinder engine was added.

The automobiles from the period from 1912 to 1913 are called Voiturettes in the literature . Four-cylinder engines powered the vehicles. The choice was between engines with 1,888 cc displacement and with 2474 cc capacity. These engines indicate mid-range cars.

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 1: A – F. 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)
  • George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Publishing, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 . (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.