Société des Moteurs et Automobiles Zedel (ZL)

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Société des Moteurs et Automobiles Zedel (ZL)

logo
legal form
founding 1903
resolution 1923
Seat Pontarlier
management Samuel Graf
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Automobiles Zedel SA share for more than 100 francs on January 15, 1920
Zedel CI from 1911 from French production

The Société des Moteurs et Automobiles Zedel (ZL) was a French company producing engines , motorcycles and automobiles and belonged to the Swiss manufacturer Fabrique de Moteurs et de Machines ZL .

Company history

In 1903, Ernest Zürcher founded a branch of his Swiss company in Pontarlier, France , in order to bypass the high customs barriers. The brand name was Zedel . On November 11, 1907, Zürcher handed over management of the branch to the Swiss engineer Samuel Graf. In 1923 the company was handed over to Jérôme Donnet, which resulted in Donnet-Zedel .

vehicles

Automobiles

From May 1906, the first 8 CV model with a four-cylinder in - line engine with a displacement of 1128 cm³ was created . The 10/12 CV model followed in 1908 , and the 16/18 CV model in 1909 , both with four-cylinder engines. In 1912 the range consisted of three four-cylinder models, the largest of which was the 18 CV with a displacement of 3563 cc.

Between 1919 and 1923 two models with four-cylinder slide engines were created . The model C 16 11 CV had a displacement of 2120 cm³, the larger model P 15 CV had a displacement of 3,168 cm³.

Motors and motorcycles

In the beginning, built-in motors were created for other motorcycle manufacturers. Between 1905 and 1915, the French factory produced motorcycles with one- and two-cylinder engines .

brand names

The engines were marketed as Zürcher. The brand name for vehicles from Swiss production was ZL , for vehicles from French production Zedel . This is an artificial word and was formed from the initials of the two company founders Zürcher & Lüthi (Z & L). Since Zedel was written without an accent in French-language advertisements and on the stationery of the Zedel company , the other spellings found in the literature such as Zédel and Zédèl are incorrect.

literature

  • Ernest Schmid: Musée de l'Automobile. Pierre Gianadda Foundation. Martigny. ProLitteris, Zurich 2004, ISBN 2-88443-080-6 . (French)
  • Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6 .
  • 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)
  • S. Ewald: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-5364-6 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. ↑ a b c Musée de l'Automobile