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SA des Établissements Rochet-Schneider
legal form SA
founding 1894
resolution 1951
Reason for dissolution Takeover by Berliet
Seat Lyon , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Emblem of Rochet-Schneider 1895
Rochet-Schneider emblem in 1923

The SA des Établissements Rochet-Schneider was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Lyon-based company started producing automobiles in 1894. Licensed productions were made by Florentia , FN , Martini and Nagant .

In 1932 the production of automobiles ended. Commercial vehicles were manufactured until 1951 when Berliet took over the company.

vehicles

The first model with a single cylinder engine was similar to the German Benz . From 1901 the models 8 CV with two-cylinder engine and 12 CV with four-cylinder engine, like the models from Panhard & Levassor, had front engines .

Later, independent models were produced.

In 1903, the 20/22 CV model came onto the market. In 1906, the 18 CV model appeared , the engine of which had a displacement of 4400 cc . In 1907, the first six-cylinder model was presented, it had a displacement of 10,900 cm³. In 1911, the range consisted of a four-cylinder model with a displacement of 4800 cm³ and a six-cylinder model with a displacement of 5500 cm³. In 1914 there were six four-cylinder and six-cylinder models to choose from.

After the First World War , there were the models 12 CV , 18 CV and 30 CV . In 1929 there were four four-cylinder and one six-cylinder models on offer.

Vehicles of this brand can be seen in several automobile museums, mainly in France.

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)

Web links

Commons : Rochet-Schneider  - 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: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.