Marcel Caplet

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Marcel Caplet was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Marcel Caplet founded the company that bore his name in Le Havre in 1906 to manufacture built-in motors for boats . He marketed these engines as triplexes . In 1908 the production of automobiles began , which were marketed as Celtic . The brand name Caplet was also used between 1910 and 1912 . Production ended in 1913.

vehicles

The company made models with four-cylinder engines. From 1912, three models with 12 hp were available . The engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle via a cardan shaft .

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 1: A – F. 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)

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.
  4. ^ Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 . (French)