Rolland Pilain

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SA des Établissements Rolland-Pilain

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founding November 1905
resolution 1931
Seat Tours
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Part de Fondateur of the Etabl. Rolland & Em. Pilain SA dated December 28, 1911
Rolland-Pilain from 1914
Rolland-Pilain from 1923

The SA des Établissements Rolland-Pilain was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

François Rolland (1859–1927) was a wealthy wine merchant. Émile Pilain (1880-1958) was a technician and the nephew of François Pilain, who ran Automobiles Pilain . Together they founded the company in Tours in November 1905 . In 1906 or 1907 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Rolland-Pilain .

The company financed the Tranin-Duverne mission , the first west-east crossing of Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea by motor vehicle carried out by Edmond Tranin and Gustave Duverne from 1924 to 1925 with a Rolland Pilain 10 CV .

Production ended in 1931.

vehicles

The first 20 CV model had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2200 cc . In 1909 the 8/10 CV model followed with a displacement of 1500 cc. In 1912 the 9 CV model appeared with a displacement of 1700 cm³. In 1913 the four-cylinder models 20 CV and 24 CV as well as the new six-cylinder model 18 CV with a valve-less engine were available. In 1914 two four-cylinder models appeared with valveless engines and displacements of 1900 cm³ and 4000 cm³.

After the First World War , the last two four-cylinder models mentioned formed the basis of the range, and in 1921 the 14/16 CV model with a displacement of 2200 cm³ was added. In 1925 a new four-cylinder model with a displacement of 2000 cc appeared, and in 1927 the D 26 model with a displacement of 1500 cc. In 1929 large models with Continental built -in engines with six cylinders, 3000 cm³ displacement and eight cylinders, 4000 cm³ displacement appeared.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Automobile Museum Col·lecció d'Automòbils de Salvador Claret in Sils .

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 : Rolland-Pilain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ^ Mélodie Simard-Houde: Le "flou" comme clef de la fabulation. L'identité professionnelle du reporter et l'invention d'un héros romanesque (1870–1939). In: Les journalistes: identités et modernités. Actes du premier congrès Médias 19 (Paris, 8–12 June 2015). April 11, 2017, accessed January 13, 2019 (French).