Société Parisienne

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Société Parisienne E. Couturier et Cie
legal form
founding 1876
resolution 1903
Seat Paris
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Parisienne from 1898
Parisienne from 1899
Rear view

The Société Parisienne E. Couturier et Cie was a French manufacturer of bicycles and automobiles .

Company history

M. Renard founded the bicycle production company in Paris in 1876 . It seems that as early as 1894 experiments were carried out with a compressed air car ; one of these was registered with the starting number 52 for the Paris-Rouen race in 1894 , but did not appear at the start. The construction of small cars began in 1899 . The brand name was Parisienne . Production ended in 1903.

vehicles

The first models, called Victoria Combination , were equipped with built-in motors from Aster or De Dion-Bouton . The special thing about the vehicles was the front-wheel drive and the steering, because the entire front end was steered. About 400 copies were made by 1901.

Conventional vehicles were built from 1901. The models had an Aster engine that was located in the bow and powered the rear wheels by means of a cardan shaft. There was a choice of engines with 5 HP and 6.5 HP. The Duc-Spider and Duc-Tonneau body styles offered space for two or four people.

Vehicles of this brand can be seen in the Musée Automobile de Vendée in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire and in the Technical Museum in Stockholm .

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 : Parisienne  - 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. ^ Report in L'Industrie Velocipedique from 1890 (French, accessed on March 2, 2013)
  5. ^ Report in Le Petit Journal from Sunday, July 22nd, 1894 (French, accessed on November 23, 2013)