Sensaud de Lavaud
The Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud was a French automobile manufactured between 1926 and 1928. An unusual car, made in Paris by M. Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud, a Brazilian, it had an automatic transmission. The Alpax chassis was cast alloy, and it was powered by a steam-cooled 5475 cc six-cylinder engine of American origin.
Sensaud de Lavaud
- Founded
- 1927.
- Headquarters
- Paris.
- Activity
- automotive industry.
- Dissolved
- 1930.
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The Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud was a French automobile manufactured between 1926 and 1928. An unusual car, made in Paris by M. Dimitri Sensaud de Lavaud, a Brazilian, it had an automatic transmission. The Alpax chassis was cast alloy, and it was powered by a steam-cooled 5475 cc six-cylinder engine of American origin.
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Few were built. The automatic transmission did not select between several gears - instead, it relied solely on the converter's torque multiplication (like GM's much later Dynaflow). André Citroën had intended to use a gearbox based on Sensaud de Lavaud's principles in his 1934-launched Citroën Traction Avant 7A, but it proved impossible for his engineers to make the car's 1300cc engine - coupled with Sensaud de Lavaud's invention - accelerate the vehicle and maintain acceptable speeds uphill, so the 7A appeared with a conventional 3-speed unit.
The record gives 1927 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 1930. Its recorded seat is Paris. The recorded field of activity is automotive industry.
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1927
Sensaud de Lavaud established.
1930
Sensaud de Lavaud ceased.
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