Sunday, November 19, 2017

Les Automobiles Bellanger Frères


Robert and Pierre Bellanger founded the company of the Automobiles Bellanger frères on 21 July 1913. The society was located in Paris at 25 rue Marbeuf, close to the Champs Elysées.
The initial capital was of 1 million francs and less than one year later, on 16 April 1914, the capital was increased to 1.5 million francs.
The cars manufactured before WWI had a Daimler sleeve-valves engine and a Lanchester transmission.

In 1919, after the Great war, the car production resumed and used motors from Briscoe.

The masterpiece was the 50 HP, called the Super-Huit, a model that was produced from 1921 and used a v8 motor built by the factory. This engine was designed by engineer Laviolette, dimensions were 90 x 125 for a total capacity of 6.4 liter.
From 1922, the finance of the company became weak, the factory was rent to Peugeot.and then later-on sold to Lucien Rosengart who installed the production of his small 5 HP car.