Automobiles Zeiller & Fournier
IndustryManufacturing
Founded1920
Defunct1924
Headquarters
Levallois-Perret
,
France
Key people
Charles Fournier
ProductsAutomobiles

Zeiller & Fournier was a short-lived French automobile producer.[1][2][3]

Car production began in 1920 at premises in Levallois-Perret, and ended in 1924. The cars were designed by racing driver Charles Fournier.[4] There is no connection established between Charles Fournier and the Fournier brothers who established an automobile manufacturing business under the name Établissements Fournier in the same part of north-central Paris.

Less than a year after the outbreak of peace, Zeiller et Fournier took a stand at the 15th Paris Motor Show and exhibited 1 6/8HP car which sat on a 2,330 mm (91.7 in) wheelbase and was powered by a Ballot 4-cylinder engine of 1131cc.[5] The car featured an interesting 5-speed friction transmission and a chain final drive.[4] There was also a smaller car produced with a 904cc 4-cylinder engine from Ruby.

Reading list

  • Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8. (German)
  • George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P–Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Autos. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Sources and notes

  1. ↑ Linz, Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie.
  2. ↑ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ Georgano: Autos. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.
  4. 1 2 Georgano, Nick (1968). The Complete Encyclopaedia of Motorcars 1885-1968. London: George Rainbird Ltd for Ebury Press Limited. p. 616.
  5. ↑ "Automobilia". Toutes les voitures françaises 1920 (salon [Paris, Oct] 1919). Paris: Histoire & collections. Nr. 31: Page 81. 2004.
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