Automobiles L. Rosengart
Automobiles L. Rosengart was a French automobile manufacturer that was on the market from 1928 to 1955. The company was founded by Lucien Rosengart and resided in Neuilly -sur -Seine.
History
1928 saw Rosengart the chance to produce a small car in France. This segment was not yet covered by the mass manufacturers. Rosengart bought the former factory of Bellanger from Neuilly, near Paris.
The first Rosengart cars were built under license by the British Austin Seven. These replicas were released as Rosengart LR 2 and were available with many different types of structures. This car was built a very long time and not only survived his highly refined successor Rosengart LR 4 and Rosengart vivor, but also the British original by far.
In the early 1930s Rosengart teamed up with the German eagle works and offered under license of the front-wheel drive Adler Trumpf and Adler Trumpf Junior on. Likewise, a larger vehicle with rear-wheel drive was built, which looked like a stretched and widened Austin. The development of the front-wheel drive car led to the elegant Rosengart Super Traction, in 1937 against the established vehicles of mass manufacturers like Peugeot 402 and Berliet Dauphine took.
In 1936 Rosengart into financial difficulties and led his company into the new Société Industrielle de l' Ouest Parisien.
The production numbers of the Supertraction were never very large and also the factory was destroyed during the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. The company survived the German occupation, but could not produce during this period ( 1940-1944 ). Lucien Rosengart, who had spent that time in American exile, returned after the Second World War to France and tried to run his business back to the production of the small car, which had explains the success in the 1920s and 1930s. At this time, however, questioned the mass manufacturers are already very small, economical cars here that were ideally suited for the conditions in post-war France.
The last Rosengart model, the Rosengart Arietta was produced from 1947 to 1954, but did not sell well. In the summer of 1955, Automobiles L. Rosengart was forced to close its doors forever, after the development of the Arietta, the Rosengart Sagaie could not be brought out with boxer engine.
Models
1928-1945
- LR 2 (1929 )
- LR 4 and derivatives ( 1930)
- LR 6 (1932 )
- LR 500 (1933)
- LR 505 (1934)
- LR 4N2 (1937 )
- Super Traction (1938 )
1946-1955
- Supertrahuit (1948 )
- Vivor (1950 )
- Robor (1950 )
- Laboratory (1950 )
- Arietta (1951 )
- Arietta Fourgonette (1952 )
- Artisane (1952 )
- Sagaie (1953 ) with the motor of the Panhard Dyna X