Renault Type JM

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Type JM
Sales designation: Renault 12 CV
Production period: 1921-1923
Class : Middle class
Body versions : Touring car , limousine
Engines: Petrol engine :
2.8 liters
Length: 4371-4557 mm
Width: 1615-1650 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 3105-3380 mm
Empty weight : 1600 kg
Previous model Renault Type EU
successor Renault Type KH

The Renault Type JM was a passenger car model of the interwar period of Renault . It was also called 12 CV .

description

The national licensing authority granted its approval on July 15, 1921. The predecessor was the Renault Type EU . Production ended in 1923. The successor was the Renault Type KH .

The water-cooled four - cylinder engine with 80 mm bore and 140 mm stroke had a displacement of 2815 cm³ . The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The maximum speed was specified as 44 km / h to 60 km / h, depending on the gear ratio.

With a wheelbase of 310.5 cm and a track width of 140 cm, the vehicle was 437.1 cm long and 161.5 cm wide. A particularly low chassis with a 334.5 cm wheelbase enabled a vehicle length of 455.7 cm. Another source mentions 338 cm wheelbase, in 1923 also 320 cm wheelbase, 438 cm vehicle length and 165 cm vehicle width. The turning circle was given as 11 meters. The chassis weighed 800 kg, the complete vehicle 1600 kg. The choices were torpedo , limousine and coupé-limousine.

Osenat offered a vehicle from 1922 at an auction on December 11, 2011, expected a price of 30,000 to 35,000 euros , but did not sell the vehicle.

Prices

The following prices (in francs ) have been handed down:

execution Prize 1921 Price in March 1922
normal chassis 23,000 25,000
torpedo 28,000 30,000
limousine 34,000 36,000
Coupé (presumably coupé sedan) 33,000 -
Coupe sedan - 35,000
low chassis 25,000 28,000

literature

  • Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 4: 1919-1923 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-902667-05-1 , pp. 75-115 (French).
  • René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 72-77 (French).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 (French).
  2. ^ A b c d e Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Tome 4: 1919-1923 . Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-902667-05-1 (French).
  3. Auction (English and French, accessed September 20, 2014)