Usines Boursaud

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Usines Boursaud
legal form
founding 1897
resolution 1899
Seat Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde , France
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Boursaud from 1899
Boursaud from 1899

Usines Boursaud was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde started producing automobiles in 1897. The brand name was Boursaud . Production ended in 1899. A total of three vehicles were built.

According to other sources, Pierre Boursaud (born December 7, 1863) founded the company and produced about ten automobiles from 1894. In 1915 the company acted as Boursaud Jeune on Rue du Général de Gaulle as a car repair shop that had existed for years and was for sale at the beginning of 2013. One vehicle still exists. A vehicle dealer offered it in June 2018.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. A water-cooled single - cylinder engine from De Dion-Bouton with 402 cm³ displacement , which was mounted in the rear, provided the drive. The two-speed transmission came from Bozier and had two forward gears, but no reverse. The vis-à-vis body shape offered space for three to four people.

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)

Web links

Commons : Usines Boursaud  - 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. ↑ a b c Jean-Yves Delage: Charente Libre. Research on the automobile manufacturer Boursaud from Baignes from January 2, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French, accessed April 7, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / baignes.blogs.charentelibre.fr
  4. ↑ Offer June 2018 (accessed June 30, 2018)