Chenard & Walcker

Chenard & Walcker was founded in 1901 by Ernest Chenard and Henri Walcker and became one of France's significant early automobile manufacturers. The company developed a varied range of touring, sporting and commercial vehicles, with the distinctive rear-engined Tank winning the first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923. The Aigle and Y-series cars carried the marque through the interwar period, while wartime disruption, financial pressure and the postwar market weakened its independence. Chenard & Walcker entered the Chausson orbit in the 1930s, and the name survived on some postwar commercial and passenger vehicles before disappearing as an independent marque after the Second World War. The catalog keeps the Tank/Aigle identity separate from Chausson, Peugeot and other license or successor relationships, and does not turn racing derivatives into separate mass-production models.

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