Du Pont

US, 1920 – 1932

(1) Du Pont Motors Inc, Wilmington, Del., 1920 – 1923

(2) Du Pont Motors Inc, Moore, Pa., 1923 – 1932

E. Paul du Pont’s company built quality cars in limited numbers, total production being 537 vehicles of all Du Pont types. First of the line was a Du Pont 4.1-litre sv four with their own engine, selling for $2.600, but this gave way to proprietary-engined sixes, initially powered by Herschell-Spillman. The 1925 Du Pont Model D had a 6-cylinder 5-litre Wisconsin engine with overhead valves that developed 75bhp, a constant-mesh gearbox, and Lockheed hydraulic brakes to all four wheels. Its successor, the Du Pont Model E, could be had with a supercharger, but the best-known, and best, Du Pont was the Du Pont Model G speedster introduced in 1928. With its narrow straight wings copied from the Amilcar, Woodlite headlamps and grille concealing the radiator, the last a pioneering feature, the Du Pont Model G was not a good-looking car, but it was a very effective one. Like all the DuPont speedsters it had four forward speeds. The 5.3-litre, sv straight-8 engine, by Continental, gave 114bhp at 3600rpm with catalogued modifications. With the latter, 100mph was guaranteed. In the 1929 Le Mans 24 Hours race the Du Pont Model G proved itself faster than the other American entries, Stutz and Chrysler. Touring bodywork was, of course, available on the Du Pont car, and in 1931 came the long wheelbase (12ft 2 in) Du Pont Model H, built in a Stearns Knight frame. The later Du Pont cars were assembled in the Indian motorcycle factory at Springfield, after E. Paul du Pont had acquired this concern.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN

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Rally

France, 1921 – 1933

Automobiles Rally, Colombes, Seine

The Rally car was a typical French sporting voiturette of its period, starting life as a 2-cylinder Rally cyclecar put together largely out of Harley-Davidson motorcycle parts, and growing up in 1922 into a normal 4-cylinder, water-cooled Rally car. The engine of this Rally car was of proprietary manufacture, and could be had in two sizes. S.C.A.P., Ruby, C.I.M.E. and Chapuis-Dornier units were used. There were 4 forward speeds on the Rally car. By 1927 there were four models Rally cars, the most powerful being a sports racing car with a Roots-supercharged twin overhead camshaft engine, and the most sophisticated an 1.100cc straight-8. Both these Rally cars were made only in prototype form. Later Rally cars were basically customized Salmsons.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN

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