Moteurs Reinhard
Société de Construction des Moteurs Reinhard | |
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legal form | Société |
founding | 1911 |
resolution | 1914 |
Seat | Lyon |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
The Société de Construction des Moteurs Reinhard was a French manufacturer of automobiles .
Company history
Valentin Reinhard founded the company in Lyon in 1911 to manufacture engines and automobiles. The brand name was Reinhard . Reinhard designed a valve motor and hoped he could sell it to Delaugère & Clayette and Minerva Motors , but these plans failed. Production ended in 1914. A total of around twenty vehicles were built.
vehicles
The vehicles were equipped with a valve motor from our own production. First there was a model with a four-cylinder engine , 2000 cc displacement and chain drive . Later a motor with 3000 cm³ displacement and cardan drive was used in the Mélanie model .
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 3: P – Z. 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
- ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- ^ A b c Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
- ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.