Salmson Cars

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About Salmson Cars

Salmson is a French engineering company, initially in the automobile and aeroplane manufacturing area, turning to pump manufacturing in the 1960s.

It was established by Émile Salmson (1858-1917) as Emile Salmson, Ing. as a workshop in Paris (1890), making steam engine-powered compressors and centrifugal pumps to railway and military purposes.

Being joined by engineers Canton and Unné, it was renamed Emile Salmson & Cie, building petrol-powered lifts and motors (1896).

The company became one of the first to make purpose built aircraft engines starting before World war I and continuing into World War II.

After World War I the company looked around for other work and started making car bodies followed by complete cars.

Car production finished in 1957.