203:. In 1897 he established his own automobile business, the "Société François Pilain", but he almost immediately abandoned this project in order to join Victor Vermorel's established engineering company, with the mandate to create the Vermorel automobile division. Under Pilain's leadership, the first Vermorel prototype was ready to be exhibited in March 1899 at the Lyon Fair. It featured a twin cylinder engine which delivered power to the rear wheels via a chain-drive mechanism. Several more Vermorel cars had been developed and constructed by the time the project came to a temporary halt in August 1901. Assisted during this period by his nephew, Pilain experimented with various innovative transmission mechanisms:it is therefore surprising that when, some years later, Vermorel automobiles went into production, they featured conventional chain based transmissions. In August 1901, after working with Vermorel for slightly under four years, Pilain left in order to try again establishing his own automobile manufacturing business, setting himself up at a premises at 51 rue de l'Abondance in nearby
292:, of "all-steel" car bodies. For volume producers willing and able to invest in huge steel presses and dies for stamping out large numbers of identical and increasingly complex steel panels, "all-steel" car bodies carried the lure of big profits, but for second tier makers of mid-range cars there was no prospect of achieving the volumes necessary to cover the capital cost of the plant. Edouard Vermorel ended passenger car production in 1930. Truck production continued only till 1932. The company itself survived for more than a further three decades, concentrating again on the agricultural machinery sector, in respect of which it had never lost its engineering expertise.
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For 1922 Vermorel introduced a 1690cc 8/16CV model which was in some respects conservatively engineered, with a side-valve "fixed-head" engine, a foot brake that worked on the transmission and a cone clutch. The car featured four-speed transmission, and four-wheel braking was available. By the
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During the early years of the twentieth century France was the world's leading automobile producer and the years from 1908 to 1914 were boom years for the sector: by 1911 Vermorel was employing 800 people. The first production model, in 1908, owed less to Pilain than to a talented engineer called
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would trigger a deep and sustained economic depression across western economies, was, with the benefit of hindsight, not the best time to be broadening the range upmarket. The automobile business was in any event being transformed by the introduction, spearheaded in France by
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Givaudan designs followed, though some proved very ephemeral, and it is not till approximately 1911 that a relatively stable Vermorel automobile range can be identified.
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engine designs for their "8/10 CV" and "16/20 CV" with engine capacities of respectively 1.5 and 2.8 litres. The similarly configured "12/16 CV" 2.3 litre engined version that appeared a year later was
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