Chapuis-Dornier Explained

Chapuis-Dornier was a French manufacturer of proprietary engines for automobiles from 1904 to 1928 in Puteaux near Paris. Between 1919 and 1921 it displayed a prototype automobile, but it was never volume produced.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Engine manufacture

Chapuis-Dornier engines were used by cyclecars such as:

• Able
• A.S. (Voiturettes Automobiles A.S)
• Autocrat
• Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS
• Benjamin
• B.N.C. (Bollack Netter and Co)
  • • Corre La Licorne
• Delage
• Derby (French car)
• Doriot, Flandrin & Parant (D.F.P.)
  • • • • Fox, (article)
    • Gobron-Brillié
• G.N.L. (Newey)
• Gordon Newey
• I.E.N.A. (Industria Economica Nazionale Automobili di Tommasi & Rizzi)
• Automobiles Induco
• Kevah (Kévah)
  • • • • • • • • • • • • Automobiles Rally
  • (Société Industrielle des Automobiles Sidéa)
• (SAM)
• Sénéchal (automobile)
  • • • (TAM)
• (Tic-Tac)
• Tuar (automobile) (Tuar)
  • (Zévaco)

Automobile manufacture

Between 1919 and 1921 Chapuis-Dornier displayed a prototype automobile at the Paris salons, equipped with a 3-litre, four cylinder engine, but this never resulted in volume production.^[1]

References

• David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1997). .

Notes and References

1. Book: Georgano, G.N., N. . Georgano, G.N. . Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . 2000 . HMSO . London . 1-57958-293-1.
2. Linz, Schrader: Die große Automobil-Enzyklopädie.
3. Linz, Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie.
4. George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G–O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001,, S. 606.
5. Georgano: Autos. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.