VELAM

The Vehicle of Société à Moteur Léger was a French manufacturer of automobiles.

Company History

The company based in Suresnes began in 1955 with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Velam. 1957 production ended. 1961 was still a prototype.

Rolling stock

The only production model was a license built the ISO Isetta with some changes that affected, among other things, the headlights, the bumpers and the front fenders. For driving the single-cylinder engine from the ISO Isetta made ​​with 236 cc displacement and 10 hp. 1957 appeared the revised version Écrin with trapezoidal side windows and a solid roof. The length of the vehicle was 2.38 meters.

Production figures: . 1224 in 1955, 4886 in 1956 and 1005 in 1957 together were the 7115 vehicles.

1961 was the prototype TA 6 for Kaiser- Ilin from Israel. For driving caused an air-cooled two-cylinder engine with 640 cc displacement. Despite the short length of 330 cm, the vehicle could seat six people.

Record runs

The French racing driver Peslier and Bianchi presented with an open single-seater on Velam based on the Autodrome de Linas- Montlhery in the class K to 250 cc some records.