Matford

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SA Française Matford

logo
legal form SA
founding 1934
resolution 1940
Seat Strasbourg , France
management Maurice Dollfuss, Émile Mathis
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Emblem from 1939

The SA Française Matford was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Maurice Dollfuss from Ford France and Émile Mathis from SA Mathis founded the Matford joint venture for automobile production in September 1934 . The brand name was Matford . Production ended in 1940 and the company was dissolved in June 1940.

vehicles

Passenger cars

At the beginning, Mathis models were offered under the Matford brand name, followed by Ford models, which subsequently replaced the Mathis models.

The Quadruflex series had chassis from Mathis and V8 engines from Ford. It sold poorly.

The 1935 model year vehicles corresponded to the American Ford V8 model 48 . A V8 engine with a displacement of 3622 cc provided the drive .

In 1936 the Alsace followed with a new, less Americanized body. The four-door sedan had four side windows. There was a choice of V8 engines with a displacement of 2227 cm³ and 3622 cm³.

In 1937 a convertible and the commerciale hatchback variant added to the range. In 1938 a station wagon with wooden paneling was added.

  • Left: Matford M4S-Commerciale 1934, right: Mathis EMY4-S

  • Matford Alsace from 1936

  • Matford from 1938

  • Matford from 1938

  • Matford from 1939

Matford F917WS

Matford F917WS

In 1940 the Matford F917WS truck followed. Despite the outbreak of the Second World War , this was continued to be built until February 1943 and then discontinued in favor of the Ford V 3000 S from German production. After the end of the war, the model was modified again as Ford Cargo F798WM from 1949 until 1954, when Ford France was taken over by Simca . Thus the model was produced from 1955 as Simca Cargo and through the takeover of Automobiles Unic in 1958, until 1960 as Unic Cargo.

literature

  • Harald 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)

Web links

Commons : Matford  - 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ Matford F917WS in use by the Wehrmacht
  5. ↑ Description and pictures about the type history of the Matford F917WS up to the Unic Cargo