Tenting
Société Nationale de Construction de Moteurs H. Tenting | |
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legal form | |
founding | 1884 |
resolution | ? |
Seat | Boulogne-Billancourt |
Branch | Automobile manufacturer |
The Société Nationale de Construction de Moteurs H. Tenting was a French manufacturer of automobiles and engines .
Company history
The company was founded in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1884 to manufacture engines. The production of automobiles began in 1891 and ended in February 1899. The brand name was Tenting . It is not known when the company was dissolved.
vehicles
The first model had a two-cylinder engine with 4 hp . The engine was mounted in the stern. The specialty was the friction or friction gear . V2 engines were used from 1896 . Some vehicles took part in the Paris-Rouen car race in 1894 and in the Paris-Nantes-Paris and Paris-Marseille-Paris car races in 1896 . In 1898 a bus with a four-cylinder engine and 16 hp was built and had 36 seats.
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)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
- ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.