Violet Bogey

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Marcel Violet
legal form
founding 1913
resolution 1914
Seat Paris
management Achille Marcel Violet
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Violet-Bogey from 1913 in the Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National - Collection Schlumpf
Violet-Bogey racing car in a 1913 small car race

Marcel Violet was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Achille Marcel Violet founded the company in Paris in 1913 and began producing automobiles. Production ended in 1914. The brand name was Violet-Bogey . Achille Marcel Violet later founded Sima-Violet .

Models

The company manufactured cyclecars . For driving a worried air-cooled V2 - four-stroke engine with 1,088 cc displacement and 22 hp . These vehicles had a friction gear , but no differential , and were also used in racing.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse in Alsace.

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 : Violet-Bogey  - 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 Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.