Richard Brasier

Richard Brasier
legal form
founding	Early 1903
resolution	October 1904
Seat	Porte d'Ivry
management	Georges Richard, Henri Brasier
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Richard-Brasier at the Gordon Bennett race in 1904. Léon Théry at the wheel .

Richard-Brasier was a French automobile manufacturer.

Company history

Georges Richard and the designer Henri Brasier founded the company in 1903 in Porte d'Ivry , a suburb of Paris , as the successor company of Georges Richard . The two entrepreneurs separated in October 1904. Georges Richard founded Unic while Henri Brasier founded Brasier .

Overview

• 1897–1902 Société des Anciens Établissements Georges Richard by Georges Richard, Maxime Richard and from 1901 Henri Brasier
• 1903–1904 Richard-Brasier by Georges Richard and Henri Brasier
• 1905–1940 Unic by Georges Richard, from 1922 George Dubois
• 1905–1926 Société des Automobiles Brasier by Henri Brasier
• 1926–1930 Chaigneau-Brasier

vehicles

Initially, four different models from the 10 CV to the four-cylinder 40 CV model were produced, which were similar to the Panhard & Levassor vehicles at the time . In 1904 two two-cylinder models were added.

Léon Théry won the Gordon Bennett race in 1904 on a Richard Brasier.

A vehicle of this make can be viewed at the Shuttleworth Collection in Biggleswade , Bedfordshire .

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: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

Commons : Richard-Brasier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.