Rovin

Établissements de Rovin
legal form
founding	1921
resolution	1961
Seat	Saint-Denis , France
Branch	Motor vehicles

Rovin D2 from 1949

Rovin D4 from 1953

Établissements de Rovin was a French manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Raoul Pegulu de Rovin founded the company in 1921 in the Île-de-France region . Addresses are consecutively the Rue de Colombes 2 in Asnières-sur-Seine , the Rue de Tilsit 32 in Paris , the Boulevard Brune in Paris and the Rue Haxo 9-11 in the 20th arrondissement in Paris . At first he made motorcycles . A source also mentions the brother Robert de Rovin.

After the Second World War , the seat was in Saint-Denis . Automobile production began in 1946 in the former Delaunay-Belleville plant . The brand name was Rovin . Production ended in 1961.

vehicles

motorcycles

There was a choice of two-stroke engines with 100 to 250 cm³ displacement and four-stroke engines with 175 to 500 cm³ displacement. Some engines had SV valve timing , others OHV valve timing . Some engines came from JAP , others from Motosacoche .

cars

Small cars were on offer . The vehicles initially had a single-cylinder engine with 240 cm³ to 275 cm³ displacement, later a two-cylinder engine with 425 to 462 cm³ displacement in the rear. The bodies on offer have been revised over time so that, among other things, they offer more weather protection.

Vehicles of this brand can be seen in various car museums.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Rovin.
• George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1382-1383 (English).

Web links

Commons : Rovin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website about Rovin (French)
• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Rovin.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1382-1383 (English).
3. ↑ Internet site about Rovin (French, accessed October 13, 2018)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Erwin Tragatsch: All motorcycles. 1894 until today. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-410-7 , p. 374.