1909 Zedel Type CA 10 HP double Phaeton

1909 Zedel Type CA 10 HP double Phaeton

Zedel was cleverly named after the phonetic pronouncing of the two founders, Ernest Zürcher and Henri Lüthi, two Swiss gentlemen who joined forces for a brief period in 1901-1902. Originally named Zürcher and Lüthi and Co., when Lüthi is a company, they renamed the ZL Engine and Machinery Factory. Zürcher having been supplying engines for motorcycles from 1897. Once upon a time at a Swiss business at Saint-Aubin-Sauges, it is necessary to set up an operation in Pontarlier, France. high import taxes on his cars, as well as being able to tap into the considerable resources of engineering talent in this country. By the end of the first decade of the 20th Century, Zedel was producing a series of high quality automobiles and modest production numbers.

The Zedel is another fabulous jewel of Jacques Vander Stappen's collection, a diminutive yet beautifully proportioned automobile symbolic of the era in which it was made. It is a very important task that has been designed to be more than 110 years in length and is not surprising.

This document is an attempt to improve the quality of the documentation, which for the Zedel begins at day one, with the original contract made between Mr. Fabre-Sapin / Central Garage of Limoges and Mr. Paul Colas of St. Leonard on 14th May 1909. On this car is very precisely described, from its windscreen to its detachable rear, black leather upholstery and canvas 'Capote Americaine' top. Its price some 7,902 Francs! Mr. Colas, or perhaps Zedel himself elected for coachwork by Henri Gauthier of Lyon coach, a company which produced many of the bodies for the Peugeot Bébé. This is followed by a deposit and purchase invoice, but more unusually

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