Mochet

Charles Mochet
legal form
founding	1924
resolution	1969
Seat	Puteaux
management	Charles Mochet , Georges Mochet
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Mochet from 1945

Mochet from 1949

Mochet from 1957

Charles Mochet was a French manufacturer of automobiles and bicycles .

Company history

Charles Mochet founded the company in Puteaux in 1924 and began producing automobiles and bicycles. The brand name of the motor vehicles was initially CM . Automobile production initially ended in 1930. After Charles Mochet's death in 1934, his son Georges Mochet ran the company. After the end of the Second World War , automobiles were also produced again, this time under the brand name Mochet . Automobile production ended in 1958. In 1969 the company was dissolved.

vehicles

Automobiles with the brand name CM

The company manufactured cycle cars between 1924 and 1930 . A single - cylinder two-stroke engine with a displacement of 350 cm³ provided the drive . The engine was mounted in the rear and drove the rear axle via a chain. The transmission had three gears. From 1929 an engine with a displacement of 142 cm³ was available.

Automobiles with the brand name Mochet

From 1945 small cars were again in the range. The single-cylinder engines from Ydral with displacements between 100 and 175 cm³ were mounted in the rear. The bodies on offer have been revised over time so that, among other things, they offer more weather protection.

Motorless vehicles

The company made recumbents and four-wheeled bicycle cars.

Vehicles from this manufacturer can be seen in various car museums.

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 : Mochet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on April 6, 2013)
• Mochet.org (accessed April 6, 2013)

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. ↑ ^{a b} Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.