Solved: PN #1378 -- Ad for Chavet & Lhardy, 1913

[pnegyesi]

Please identify the coachbuilder (as I don't know the donor) for a point

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Experts?

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Professionals?

[gte4289]

SAP (Société des Automobiles Pilain)?

[pnegyesi]

no

[neilshouse]

Driguet?

[Fёdor]

French?

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Pipe?

[pnegyesi]

It was an extremely obscure French coachbuilder. Not Pipe or Driguet

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Masters?

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Black Hole?

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black hole

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After 1909?

[pnegyesi]

good luck !

The puzzle picture is from a 1913 magazine

[gte4289]

Closse?

[pnegyesi]

Thanks for reviving this old puzzle. It is not Closse.

Here are some clues:
- based in one of the Parisian suburbs
- very short lived, but apparently had a stand at the 1913 Paris Auto Show
- one of the partners went on to become a coachbuilder on his own after WW1 for a few years at the same address.

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Carrosserie Régence?

Oddly, Régence (owner/partner/manager?) G. Verheyden was already advertising under his own name and at the same address as Régence in 1912.)

[pnegyesi]

no, not Regence

[gte4289]

Avoiron?

[pnegyesi]

no

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Buat & Remond?

[pnegyesi]

no

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Pingret, Guilon et Breteau?

[pnegyesi]

no, in Gallica there are two hits for the name of the partnership

I think the only way to find this is:
- find the suburb
- find the partner which went alone in the 1920s
and then I give you the final clue to find the company!

[gte4289]

Chavet-Lhardy?