De Wandre

De Wandre was the short-lived automobile conversion identity of Établissements Fr. De Wandre at Chaussée de Jette 368 in Koekelberg, Brussels. Belgian heritage and address records support activity in 1924–25; looser 1923 claims are retained only as secondary approximations. No primary corporate record has established the founder's full given name, and the abbreviation Fr. is not expanded by guessing among unrelated Dewandre or De Wandre families. The concern did not design a clean-sheet automobile. It modified already completed Ford Model T chassis, lowering them approximately 13.5 cm and lengthening them approximately 40 cm, then fitted a streamlined coupe-vent radiator treatment, disc or wire wheels and custom bodies. A secondary account gives 14 and 46 cm, so the Belgian-source dimensions are preferred while the conflict remains noted. Three-seat roadster, closed conduite intérieure and city landaulet forms were coachwork configurations of the same donor-based family. Because already-built Fords were converted, no reliable production figure, De Wandre serial sequence or isolated engine specification can be reconstructed. The operation ended after 1925. One Ford T-Based Conversion row therefore represents the complete defensible vehicle program without treating Elegant Spider prose, roadster, limousine or landaulet as invented model names. Ford remains the donor marque, and Wandre place names and unrelated families are excluded.

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