Corre-La Licorne 1901-1949 - with name variations and varying success
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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Corre-La Licorne. Founded by Jean-Marie Corre, his company was handed over after 6 years to Lestienne, which brought out a large number of models. In 1949, the Corre-La Licorne factory went to Berliet, as the last model was only considered a pre-war discontinued model.
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This three-stage brand history began with the Société française des automobiles Corre, founded in 1901 by Jean-Marie Corre in Levallois-Perret near Paris. It initially built tricycles and quadricycles, or three- and four-wheeled microcars with single-cylinder engines from De Dion-Bouton. Racing victories achieved through the textile industrialist Waldemar Lestienne brought Corre some sales success from 1903 onwards. However, legal disputes drove him to ruin, so that he left his company to Lestienne in 1907. The unicorn in his family coat of arms led to the new Corre-La Licorne brand. In addition to one and two-cylinder engines, its models also had four-cylinder engines, later four-cylinder engines from Ballot and Chapuis-Dornier.
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