Moteurs Reinhard

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Société de Construction des Moteurs Reinhard
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 .

Share of Soc. de Construction des Moteurs Reinhard Ltd of March 14, 1913

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

  1. ^ A b c 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 Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.