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first entered the automobile manufacturing company came controls for engine components such as crankshafts which were provided to Levassor De Dion-Bouton and other pioneering companies, and in 1903 they continued to complete engines Encouraged by two major distributors of cars, Mann and Overton London and Paris Fournier, Hotchkiss decided to start making their own range of cars and bought a Mercedes Simplex for inspiration and Georges Terrace previously Mors was taken as a designer.
The first car Hotchkiss, a 17 hp four-cylinder model in 1903 Type of engine 20 HP C was heavily based on the Mercedes Simplex, except to the extent possible, it uses ball bearings rather than simple, there including the crankshaft and with the exception of Hotchkiss drive the six-cylinder models, types L and O followed in 1907.
The ball bearing motors lasted until the type 30HP X 1910 In the same year Hotchkiss moved into a smaller car market with the type of 2212cc Z.
With the outbreak of the First World War the factory turned to war production and a subsidiary factory was opened in Coventry, England car production resumed in France in 1919 with the types prewar AD, AD6, AF and AG.
After an attempt to enter the luxury market with the AK, which does not exceed the prototype stage, the company decided on a policy model and introduced the Coventry AM conceived in 1923 Later that year the Coventry factory was sold to Morris Henry Mann Ainsworth January 1971 and 1884 Wilde AH had run, moved to Paris to become general manager and chief engineer of the automotive division, respectively.
In 1926, construction of the new plant of the Boulevard Ornano was completed and Hotchkiss bought a steel pressing business for the manufacture of internal bodies in the model policy lasted until 1929, were announced AM73 models AM80 six cylinders 73 and 80 were used for the bore of the engine, a later resumed naming theme in 1936 after a brief pause.
The AM models have been replaced by a new range in 1933 with a new naming system The 411 was a 11HP model with four-cylinder engine, the 413 has 13HP four and 615, 617 and 620 were similar kinds six-cylinder 1936 686, which replaced the 620, was available high performance grand Sport and 1937 Paris-Nice with twin carburetors and they helped Hotchkiss won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1932, 1933, 1934, 1939, 1949 and 1950 the new schema naming introduced in 1936 is the desired number of cylinders, followed by the bore of the engine in millimeters.
On the side of the arms company and body stamping plant was nationalized in 1936 by the government of the Popular Front The car company in 1937, took Amilcar reset excess speed until they also started making military vehicles and light tanks When France declared war in September 1939, Hotchkiss were sitting on a military order for 1,900 H35 and H39 tanks powered engine capacity to six cylinders 5 and 3 respectively 6 liters, and at the time of the German invasion in May 1940, they were still working in the order 2, however, that the military situation deteriorated decision was taken on May 20, 1940, to abandon the factory of Saint- Denis, now fully focused on the production of war 2 there was a disorderly evacuation, first towards Auxerre, then mills and further south, the employees were trying desperately ment to keep information on the military production of the Germans 2 However, implicit national capitulation in the signing of the armistice on June 22 has left these efforts looking a bit out of place, and most employees drifted within weeks ensuing 2 two exceptions were the commercial director, Jacques Jacobsen and English born CEO, Henry Ainsworth, who both managed to avoid capture and leave France 2 During the war, as many businesses in the area occupied north, the company was forced to work for the occupants and has been engaged in the repair of military vehicles 2.
In 1941, François Lehideux, then a prominent member of the government's economic team, called Jean-Pierre Peugeot and its CEO Maurice Jordan to a meeting, and invited to study the possibility of taking a majority stake in the company Hotchkiss 2 the suggestion Lehideux derived from a German law of 18 October 1940 authorizing the confiscation of enterprises controlled by the Jews now 2 Peugeot himself had worked, grugingly under all German control since summer 1940 any case, in July 1942 Peugeot took the hand control in the Hotchkiss company and by the end of 1942, Peugeot names and Jordan were listed as members of the Board Hotchkiss 2 There ' there is no evidence of any attempt to combine the activities of both companies, but after the war would be involved Peugeot course renounce their participation in Hotchkiss.
With the release in 1944 Ainsworth returned and production restarted in 1946 with the pre-war cars, light truck and a tractor.
After the war, car production resumed slowly with less than 100 cars produced in each of 1946 and 1947, but in 1948 things were moving a little faster with 460 Hotchkiss cars produced this year 3 The volume of production is completely inadequate to carry the society, while truck production was somewhat more successful with over 2300 products in 1948, 3 and it was the support of the volumes of trucks and the Jeep-based M201 which allowed the company to scale as car producer a little more convincing than some in France other luxury car manufacturers, at least until mid-1950 cars that represent the company in the second half of the 1940s, were essentially the prewar the company designs the 2312 cc four-cylinder car was now on Hotchkiss 864 mark while the six -cylinder car ed ty badged as Hotchkiss 680 with a 3016 cc engine or Hotchkiss 686 with 3485 cc engine 3.
The car range was modernized in 1950 and a new car, Anjou four-door sedan is available on 1350 486 2050 renamed the 686 chassis Anthéor The convertible was added in 1952. In 1948, Hotchkiss had bought the rights to Gregory forehead - car-wheel drive and the car went into production in 1951, but was expensive sales in general were down, and reaches its 65th anniversary in 1949 Ainsworth retired at successful high working Maurice Gary 4 family Peugeot sold their interest in the company Coupe and convertible versions of the Hotchkiss-Grégoire were announced in 1951, but sales have not improved, and production stopped in 1952 after only 247 were made.
Hotchkiss merged with Delahaye in 1954 to become Hotchkiss-Delahaye company, but production stopped the car in 1955 to be replaced by jeeps built license In 1956 the company was taken over by Brandt a manufacturer of household appliances, become Hotchkiss-Brandt were again taken in 1966 by Thomson-Houston military vehicles were made until 1967 and until 1971 trucks.
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3 0 3 1 3 2 Automobilia, 1948 All living Cars French Paris in October 1947 Paris collections History 7 Page 48 1998.
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