Le Métais

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Voiturettes Le Métais
legal form Société
founding 1904
resolution 1910
Seat Levallois-Perret , France
management Louis Le Métais
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Part de Fondateur of the Societe des Automobiles Le Métais from August 19, 1908
Pernette in his Le Métais at the 1908 Grand Prix des Voiturettes in Dieppe

Voiturettes Le Métais was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Louis Le Métais founded the company in Levallois-Perret in 1904 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Le Métais . His sisters-in-law Henri Godefroy and Émile Godefroy were also involved. Production ended in 1910. Henri Godefroy then founded GEP with Levêque Godefroy et Levêque and Émile Godefroy founded GEP in 1913

vehicles

Initially there were single-cylinder models with built-in engines from De Dion-Bouton . A dedicated engine was used in the 9 CV model . The vehicles were equipped with a friction or friction gear and also took part in car races from 1906 to 1908. From 1907 models with two-cylinder engines and four-cylinder engines were manufactured by Gnôme et Rhône .

A vehicle that has survived was exhibited in the Museon di Rodo in Uzès in 1980 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Le Métais.
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): 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 : Le Métais  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Le Métais.
  2. ↑ a b c George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ^ Erik Eckermann: Museon di Rodo in Uzès. In: Automobil- und Motorrad-Chronik , issue 7/1980, p. 39.