Vivinus

Ateliers Vivinus SA (1899–1911) SA d'Automobiles Vivinus (1911–1912)
legal form	Société anonyme
founding	1899
resolution	1912
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek , Belgium
Branch	Automobiles

Automobiles Vivinus SA share over 100 francs from 1908

Vivinus from 1900

Vivinus from 1900

SA d'Automobiles Vivinus , previously Ateliers Vivinus SA , was a Belgian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The engineer Alexis vivinus (1860-1929) and Jacques de Liedekerke founded in 1899 in Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek , the company Ateliers vivinus SA . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Vivinus . The company was renamed Automobiles Vivinus SA in 1908 . In 1911 the company went into liquidation , at the same time Alexis Vivinus left the company. Production ended in 1912. Fabrique Automobile Belge continued production under its own name.

vehicles

From 1899 to 1901, 152 copies of the first model with a single-cylinder engine were built . From 1900, the 7 CV and 9 CV models with two-cylinder engines followed . In 1901 another model was produced, the single-cylinder engine with 638 cm³ displacement from De Dion-Bouton . From 1902 to 1906 the model 15/18 CV , also called La Routière , was produced with a four-cylinder engine . From 1907 to 1912 four different four-cylinder models were offered: Type A 24/30 HP with 4156 cm³ displacement, Type L 22/28 HP with 3742 cm³ displacement, Type N 20/24 HP with 3500 cm³ displacement and Type O 12/14 HP with 2799 cm³ displacement. In 1910 the type P 10/12 HP with 1944 cc displacement was added.

On November 3, 2017, the Bonhams auction house auctioned a vehicle for 67,001 euros .

Two vehicles of the type 7 CV can be seen in the automobile museums in Leuze-en-Hainaut and Gjern in Denmark .

literature

• Yvette Kupélian, Jacques Kupélian, Jacques Sirtaine: Histoire de l'automobile belge. Paul Legrain, Brussels, ISBN 2-87057-001-5 and epa, Paris, ISBN 2-85120-090-9 . (French)
• George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1684 (English).
• George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

Commons : Vivinus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1684 (English).
2. ↑ Royal Veteran Car Club Belgium ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2013 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 March 8, 2014) 
3. ↑ 2017 auction (accessed April 1, 2018)