SA Hermès

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SA Hermès
legal form SA
founding 1906
resolution 1909
Seat Liege , Belgium
management Baron Pierre de Crawhez and Alberto Manzi-Fe
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The SA Hermès was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles . The brand name was Hermès .

Company history

The company from Rue Lairesse in Liège took over Mécanique et Moteurs in 1906 and began producing automobiles. In 1907 a new factory was built in Bressoux with a capacity of 600 vehicles per year, but this number of vehicles was never reached in one year. Production ended in August 1909. There was a collaboration with Hermes Italiana . There was no connection with Hermes , which three years later manufactured vehicles under the same brand name at the same location.

vehicles

The 16/18 CV model had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4192 cm³ and was identical to the Hermès Italiana model. There were also the 12/14 CV and 20/24 CV . The chassis came from Dyle et Bacalan .

literature

  • George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • GN Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present , Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 (English)
  • David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 (English)
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian and Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-8705-7001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-8512-0090-9 (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present
  2. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .