Lacoste & Battmann

Jacques Lacoste founded the company J. Lacoste et Cie in Paris in 1897 for automobile production. In 1901 the name was changed to Lacoste & Battmann and 1905 in Lacoste & Battmann Ltd.

The company sold limited numbers of finished vehicles under its own name, and via its own marques: Cupelle (1905) and L & B. In addition finished chassis, equipped with Aster, De Dion-Bouton or Mutel engines, were supplied to competing companies such as: Gamage, Horley Motor & Engineering Co. Ltd (sold as Horley and No Name), Imperial, Jackson, Lacoba, E. H. Lancaster, Napoleon, Regal, Simplicia and Speedwell Motor & Engineering, which completed the chassis and bodywork to offer complete cars under their own names.

Production ended in 1913.

1897: 4 CV (4 hp) quadricycle with electric ignition.

1903: 6 CV single-cylinder and 12 CV two-cylinder built -in engine from De Dion-Bouton as well as 24 CV four-cylinder engine from Mutel.

1904: Single cylinder model with a displacement of 700 cm3

1905: single-cylinder models, 10 CV two-cylinder with 2000 cm3 displacement and four-cylinder models with 2500 cm3, 3300 cm3 and 4900 cm3 displacement; Engines from Aster and De Dion-Bouton