Lacoste & Battmann

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Lacoste & Battmann Ltd

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legal form Ltd
founding 1897
resolution 1913
Seat Paris , France
management Jacques Lacoste
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Lacoste & Battmann from 1904
Lacoste & Battmann from 1907

Lacoste & Battmann was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Jacques Lacoste founded J. Lacoste et Cie in Paris in 1897 to manufacture automobiles. In 1901 the name was changed to Lacoste & Battmann and 1905 in Lacoste & Battmann Ltd . In addition to the company's own vehicle construction, finished chassis were also sold to competing companies and subsidiaries such as Cupelle , Gamage , Imperial , Jackson , L & B , Lacoba , Lancaster , Napoleon , Regal , Simplicia and Speedwell , who completed the chassis into complete cars and offered them under their own names .

Production ended in 1913.

vehicles

  • 1897: 4 CV
  • 1903: 6 CV single-cylinder and 12 CV two-cylinder built -in engine from De Dion-Bouton and 24 CV four-cylinder engine from Mutel
  • 1904: single cylinder model with 700 cm³ displacement
  • 1905: single-cylinder models, 10 CV two-cylinder with 2000 cm³ displacement and four-cylinder models with 2500 cm³, 3300 cm³ and 4900 cm³ displacement; Engines from Aster and De Dion-Bouton
  • 1906: 12/16 CV
  • 1907: One, two and four-cylinder models from 4.5 CV to 24 CV as well as electric cars
  • 1910: Four-cylinder model with 1800 cm³ displacement, Aster engine

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 : Lacoste & Battmann  - 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.