LA PONETTE / FRANCE / ENGLAND ( 1909 - 1925 )
The automobile company LA PONETTE was created by Georges Grandvaud in Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuses / France in 1909. Incidentally, the French word “ponette” means pony.
LA PONETTE was very successful in exports. Vehicles were exported to Italy, but mainly to England.
In England, the vehicles were marketed under the name AVERIES LA PONETTE.
At the beginning of the First World War, production was relocated from Chevreuse (France) to Englefield (England).
The factory moved back to France (Clichy) in 1919.
The first LA PONETTE had the radiator behind the engine and before the firewall, but no emblem, only a kind of chassis plate.
After 3 years, LA PONETTE brought out a much more conventional car with a 4-cylinder engine from BALLOT. This car also had no emblem but a script on the radiator.
Later they also used engines made by SCAP.
As far as I know, only the last models were given an enameled emblem.
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| very large radiator emblem |
| Size | 13.5 cm x 3.8 cm |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| LA PONETTE type G ( 1919 ) with BALLOT engine |
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| c. 1912 / 1914 no emblem, only a script |
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| french advertisement of the nineteentwenties |
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| 1914 advertisement for the italian market |
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| advertisement for the british market |
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| LA PONETTE stand at the Salon Brussels in 1923 with the car and the radiator with the emblem shown above. |
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