Société Buchet

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Gaston Sailly, Moteurs et Automobiles Buchet
legal form
founding 1888
resolution 1930
Seat Billancourt
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Emblem of Buchet
Buchet from 1912

Buchet was a French manufacturer of automobiles and engines .

Company history

The Société Buchet was founded in Levallois-Perret in 1888 to produce lamps. In 1899 the production of built-in engines for other car manufacturers began. From 1911 onwards the company produced its own automobiles. The brand name was Buchet . In 1919 the company was renamed Gaston Sailly, Moteurs et Automobiles Buchet and moved to Billancourt . Production ended in 1930.

Products

vehicles

The first model 12/20 CV appeared in 1911. It had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2200 cm³ and a three-speed gearbox. This was followed by the 6 CV with a displacement of 1100 cc. In 1920 there was a four-cylinder model with 1500 cm³ displacement, and in 1922 one with 1551 cm³ displacement. In 1926 the 6 CV also appeared , also with a four-cylinder engine. In 1928 a six-cylinder model with 1700 cm³ displacement and 40 hp was brought onto the market.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée Communal de l'Automobile Mahymobiles in Leuze-en-Hainaut .

Engines

In 1901, at the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris, Buchet presented a single-cylinder engine with 6.5 hp, a two-cylinder engine with 12 hp and a four-cylinder engine with 38 hp. The engines weighed 53 kg, 95 kg and 180 kg, respectively.

Built-in motors were supplied to the following companies: Barré , Bébé , Beckmann , Celeritas , CID , Concordia , Dumas , Énergie , Fouillaron , Orel , Passy-Thellier , Presto , Renaux , Reyrol , Van Langendonck and Ward Leonard Electric Company .

Chassis

Between 1914 and 1915 Buchet supplied chassis to the Hollingdrake Automobile Company in Stockport . The chassis had a four-cylinder engine with side valves and 10 hp and a gearbox . Hollingdrake assembled its own bodies , mostly open two-seaters and coupés . The brand name of these vehicles was Ascot . The original price was 195 pounds sterling .

Licenses

The Fabbrica Toscana di Automobili from Florence manufactured engines for their automobiles between 1901 and 1903 under a license from Buchet.

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 1: A – F. 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 : Buchet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, p. 58.