Renault Type T

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Renault Type T Phaeton (1904)
Renault Type T Phaeton (1904)
Type T
Sales designation: Renault 7 CV
Production period: 1903-1904
Class : Small car
Body versions : Tonneau , Phaeton
Engines: Otto engine :
0.9 liters (5.1 kW)
Length: 3400 mm
Width: 1500 mm
Height:
Wheelbase : 2300 mm
Empty weight : 900 kg
Previous model Renault Type R
Renault Type T Tonneau (1904)

The Renault Type T was an early passenger car model from Renault . It was also called 7 CV .

description

The model was presented at the Paris Motor Show in December 1903 . It replaced the Renault Type R from. The state licensing authority granted the license on February 9, 1904. Production ended in the same year. At first there was no successor.

A single cylinder engine with a 100 mm bore and 110 mm stroke developed 7 hp from a displacement of 864 cm³ . This was the last single cylinder engine in a Renault. The side-mounted water cooler had nine cooling elements. The engine power was sent to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The top speed was specified as 31 km / h to 51 km / h, depending on the gear ratio.

With a wheelbase of 230 cm, the vehicle was 340 cm long and 150 cm wide. The chassis weighed 540 kg, the complete vehicle 900 kg. The choices were Tonneau and Phaeton .

The price in December 1903 was 5500 francs .

The auction house H&H Classics Limited auctioned a tonneau for £ 65,000 on June 16, 2012 . Its engine output is given as 9 hp. The Bonhams auction house sold another tonneau from 1904 on November 2, 2018 for £ 75,900 . There is a tonneau in the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse .

literature

  • Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Voitures Particulières. Tome 1: 1899-1905. Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1977, pp. 110-141.
  • René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 , pp. 21-22 (French).

Web links

Commons : Renault Type T  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Voitures Particulières. Tome 1: 1899-1905. Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1977.
  2. ^ A b René Bellu: Toutes les Renault. Des origines à nos jours . Éditions Jean-Pierre Delville, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-85922-023-2 (French).
  3. ↑ Histomobile (English, accessed on August 16, 2014)
  4. ↑ Auction ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on August 16, 2014)
  5. ↑ Punctuation. In: Oldtimer Markt , issue 1/2019, p. 208.