The Delahaye automobile manufacturing company was started by Emile Delahaye in 1894, in Tours, France. Emile Delahaye ( October 16, 1843 - June 1, 1905) was a French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles. Tours is a city in France the Préfecture (capital city of the Indre-et-Loire département, on the lower reaches of the river This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. His first cars were belt-driven, with single or twin cylinder engines. A Belt is a looped strip of flexible material used to mechanically link two or more rotating shafts In 1900, Delahaye left the company.
In 1901, the Société des Automobiles Delahaye constructed a factory in Paris, where they continued to manufacture cars and trucks. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the semi-truck For the North American use of the word see Pickup truck. In 1908, they began producing four cylinder engines, in sizes of 1. 5 and 2. 1 litres, as well as a 2. 6 litre V6. A V6 engine is a V engine with six cylinders mounted on the Crankcase in two banks of three cylinders They also licensed their designs to manufacturers in the United States and Germany. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. By the end of World War I, their major income was from their truck business. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
In 1934 they introduced a 12cv car, with a 2. 15 litre four cylinder engine, and an 18cv car powered by a 3. 2 litre six — both engines derived from their successful truck engines. In 1935 the introduction of the Coupé des Alpes car model and the Model 135 car brought success to their car business as well, while the truck business also continued to thrive.
Delahayes of this period are recognized to be some of the most beautiful automobiles ever built. Some of the great coach-builders who provided bodies for Delahayes include Figoni et Falaschi, Chapron, and Letourneur et Marchand. Henri Chapron (1886 Nouan-le-Fuzelier - 1978 Paris) was a prominent French automobile coachbuilder
As was customary for car manufacturers in this period, Delahaye also tried its hand in racing in the middle of the 1930s after the American heiress Lucy O'Reilly Schell approached the company with an offer to pay the development costs to build cars to her specifications for rally racing. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Rallying is a form of motor competition that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars In 1937, René Le Bègue and Julio Quinlin won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Delahaye. ---- René Le Bégue ( January 15, 1914 - February 24, 1946) was a Parisian born French race car driver in Rally The Monte Carlo Rally (officially Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo) is a Rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organize This was the time when the German Nazi party, in an attempt to establish dominance for their party, nation, and philosophy, nationalized the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racing teams and spared no expense to create some of the most advanced competition cars ever, whose raw speed was to be unequalled for the next 50 years. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of luxury Automobiles Buses coaches and Trucks It is currently a division of the Auto Union was an amalgamation of four German Automobile manufacturers established in 1932 in Zwickau, Saxony, during the Great Depression Against this juggernaut, Delahaye brought out the Model 145, the so called "Million Franc Delahaye" after its victory in the Million Franc Race; it was driven by René Dreyfus to victory at Pau in 1938, doubly humiliating the Nazis since a Jewish driver in a French car beat their vaunted, state of the art, Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows. The Million Franc Race, or ‘Prix du Million’ was an effort in 1937 by the French Popular Front to induce French Automobile manufacturers to develop René Dreyfus ( May 6, 1905 – August 16, 1993) was a French driver who raced automobiles for 14 years in the Pau is a town and ''commune'' in the Aquitaine ''région'' of PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Silver Arrows (in German Silberpfeile) was the name given by the press to Germany's dominant Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union Grand Prix motor racing This competition victory combined with French patriotism to create a wave of demand for Delahaye cars, up until the German occupation of France during World War II. The German occupation of France in World War II occurred during the period between May 1940 to December 1944
In early 1940, over 100 cars of the 134, 175, and 168 (Renault-bodied) types were built for the French government. This is about the company for other uses see Renault (disambiguation. Private sales effectively ceased around June, but small numbers of cars continued to be built for the occupying forces until at least 1942.
After World War II, in late 1945, production of the 135 was resumed, and the 4. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including 5 litre model 175 was introduced in 1948. Sales slowed, however, and the last new model, a 3. 5 litre Jeep-like vehicle, was released in 1951. Jeep is an Automobile Marque (and registered trademark of Chrysler. In 1954, Delahaye was taken over by Hotchkiss, who shut down car production and, after producing trucks with the Hotchkiss-Delahaye nameplate for a few more months, dropped the Delahaye name altogether. Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and car company established by United States engineer Benjamin B
In the decades after the war, a number of other French luxury car marques disappeared, like Delahaye, due to the heavy French taxes on luxury vehicles at that time.
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