Brasier
Sign in to saveBrasier was a French automobile manufacturer, based in the Paris conurbation, and active between 1905 and 1930. The firm began as Richard-Brasier in 1902, and became known as Chaigneau-Brasier in 1926. __TOC__
Key facts
- Company.name
- Brasier
- Company.logo
- Logo brasier.png
- Company.fate
- Bankruptcy
- Company.foundation
- 1905 as Société des Automobiles Brasier
- Company.location_city
- Ivry, France (factory)
- Company.products
- Automobiles
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- list of car brands
- Country
- France
- Founded by
- Georges Richard
- Headquarters
- Ivry-sur-Seine
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Image
- Emblem Brasier.JPG
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1926-00-00
- Commons category
- Brasier vehicles
- inception
- 1905-00-00
- product or material produced
- car
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Early Brasiers
- World War I
- After WWI
- Racing
- References
Brasier was a French automobile manufacturer, based in the Paris conurbation, and active between 1905 and 1930. The firm began as Richard-Brasier in 1902, and became known as Chaigneau-Brasier in 1926. __TOC__
==Origins== right|thumb|240px|Leon Thery, winner of the 1904 Gordon Bennett competition, driving a Richard-Brasier. Charles-Henri Brasier worked briefly with Panhard and then for some years with Émile Mors before, at the age of 35, he set himself up as an automobile manufacturer on his own account. He did this in partnership with Georges Richard, the two of them establishing the Richard-Brasier business in 1902.
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