Leyat

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Marcel Leyat
legal form
founding 1913
resolution 1927
Seat Paris
management Marcel Leyat
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Leyat from 1921
Leyat from 1921
interior

Leyat was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Marcel Leyat (1885–1986) began building unusual cars in small series in 1913. The brand name was Leyat , and occasionally Hélica . Production ended in 1927. A total of around 30 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The body was modeled on an airplane fuselage and had no fenders. An air-cooled two-cylinder built -in engine from ABC was used, which was later replaced by a three-cylinder engine. Instead of power transmission by means of a cardan or chain to an axle, the vehicles had a large propeller at the bow .

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris .

See also

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 : Leyat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b 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. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.