La Minerve

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Société La Minerve
legal form
founding 1901
resolution 1906
Seat Billancourt
Branch Automobile manufacturer

La Minerve from 1902
La Minerve from 1902

The Société La Minerve was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Billancourt company started producing automobiles in 1901. Production ended in 1906.

vehicles

The first 3½ CV model had a single cylinder engine . In 1902 the offer consisted of the single-cylinder model 6 CV, which was offered in England as Vesta , the two-cylinder models 8 CV and 10 CV and the four-cylinder model 15 CV or 16 CV. In 1903 a three-cylinder model was added and in 1905 the large four-cylinder 18 CV and 24 CV models.

A vehicle of this brand occasionally competes in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run .

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

Commons : La Minerve  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Photo (accessed February 27, 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. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.