Stéla

Véhicules Électriques Stéla
legal form
founding	1941
resolution	1948
Seat	Villeurbanne , France
management	Hubert Pascal
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Stéla from 1942

Véhicules Électriques Stéla was a French manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles .

Company history

Hubert Pascal founded the company in Villeurbanne in 1941 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Stéla . Automobile production ended in 1944. Commercial vehicles were made until 1948. Stéla stands for S ervice de la T raction É lectrique L égere à A ccumulateur.

vehicles

The company only manufactured electric cars because gasoline was hardly available in France during World War II . Among other things, there was the RCA model , a four-door, five-seat sedan .

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée Henri Malartre in Rochetaillée-sur-Saône .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Stéla.
• 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 : Stéla  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Contribution to Deutschlandradio Kultur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Stéla.
2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
3. ↑ George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)