La pearl

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Louis Lefèvre on La Perle at the Grand Prix de Boulogne 1921

La Perle was a French car brand.

Company history

The Louis Lefèvre company from Boulogne-sur-Seine began producing automobiles in 1913. Production ended in 1927.

vehicles

The first model, which was produced until 1914, was a cycle car . A two-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1060 cm³ from Automobiles Bignan provided the drive . The vehicle was also available with a four-cylinder engine with 1420 cm³ displacement; then the vehicle was no longer considered a cycle car. The chassis came from Malicet & Blin .

Sports cars came into being after the First World War . There was a choice of a four-cylinder engine from Bignan with a displacement of 1400 cm³ and a six-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1500 cm³.

The figures for the number of units produced vary between 75 and 300 four-cylinder models and between 10 and 75 six-cylinder models.

A vehicle from 1923 still exists.

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 Perle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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 Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b c d Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ^ Hans-Jörg Götzl: Steil-Zeit. In: Motor Klassik , issue 6/1998, p. 138.