- Founded
- 1919 – 1924
- Country
- France
Henri and Achille Fournier had built light cars at Levallois-Perret before organizing SA des Anciens Établissements Fournier in 1913. Their original Fournier range included 6/8 CV and 10 CV cars, but the public marque changed after Henri's death, when Paris distributor Victor Silvestre took control at the end of 1918 and adopted Baby-Silvestre for the 1919 revival. The postwar cars retained friction transmission and used bought-in Train V-twin or Ballot and Ruby four-cylinder engines. Only one firm chassis designation survives in accessible evidence: the 1919 Type B146, a 904 cc Ruby-engined two-seater. The remaining Train and Ballot versions are preserved as source-defined families rather than assigned invented type numbers. Production ended in 1924 as conventional small cars displaced the cyclecar market.
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