Vitrex industry

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Vitrex Industry SA
legal form SA
founding 1974
resolution ?
Seat Paris , France
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Vitrex Industrie SA was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

VITREX Garbo
VITREX Riboud

The Paris-based company started producing automobiles in 1974. The brand name was Vitrex . Jacques Riboud was the designer . In 1978, SECAM was taken over from Chambly . Production ended in 1980. The company was then still active in the automotive industry. It is not known when the company was dissolved.

vehicles

The company manufactured micro cars. The Riboud model was manufactured at Marland SARL . With a new price of 6430 French francs , it was the cheapest car in France in 1979. This open vehicle was available with both three and four wheels. For driving a saw built-in motor of Sachs with 47 cc displacement and 2.4 PS performance. The vehicle was 195 cm long and weighed about 100 kg.

From 1978 there was also the Addax , which previously came from SECAM. It was only available as a tricycle. There was a choice of engines with 47 cm³ and 50 cm³ displacement.

In 1980 the Garbo model was presented at the Paris Motor Show. The closed body offered space for two people. A Peugeot engine with a displacement of 49 cm³ propelled the vehicle. MDP Transmission revised the model and brought it out under the brand name Puma .

literature

  • 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)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 88. Toutes les voitures françaises 1976. Salon 1975. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2007. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 78. Toutes les voitures françaises 1977. Salon 1976. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2006. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Issue 94. Toutes les voitures françaises 1978. Salon 1977. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2009. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Issue 84. Toutes les voitures françaises 1979. Salon 1978. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2006. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 74. Toutes les voitures françaises 1980. Salon 1979. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2005. (French)
  • René Bellu: Automobilia. Edition 90. Toutes les voitures françaises 1981. Salon 1980. Histoire & Collections, Paris 2008. (French)

Web links

Commons : Vitrex Industry  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  2. ↑ Bellu: Toutes les voitures françaises 1981.