De Sanzy

De Sanzy is one of the least documented French cyclecar identities. David Burgess Wise's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Automobiles records it at Paris in 1924 and supplies the only consistent construction outline: a 350 cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine, wooden chassis and plywood body. AllCarIndex and Philippe Boursin independently index the same place and year, but no recovered period advertisement, registration, salon catalog or company file identifies a legal manufacturer, founder, street address, model designation, price or output. The leading Beaulieu Encyclopedia omits De Sanzy entirely, demonstrating that recognition is not uniform even among major reference works. Wikidata's treatment as a business founded and dissolved in 1924 merely imports a tertiary German-language summary; this history therefore says the marque is recorded for 1924 rather than asserting precise corporate acts. No evidence proves series manufacture or even more than one completed vehicle. The catalog creates one editorially named 350 cc Cyclecar row and leaves body, seating, cooling, transmission, drivetrain, dimensions, weight, performance and production unset. It does not infer generic cyclecar norms. R. de Sanzy, French geographic names, Château de Sanzy, De Salvert, De Riancey, De Marçay, De Cézac and spelling suggestions such as De Sanzay remain unrelated. One deliberately sparse row exhausts the evidence while keeping the identity visible for future archival work.

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