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Sunbeam motorcycles were not made
until 1912. In-house
designer Louis Coatalen had an
enthusiasm for
motor racing and ac****ulated
expertise with engines...
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Louis Hervé
Coatalen (11
September 1879 – 23 May 1962) was an
automobile engineer and
racing driver born in
Brittany who
spent much of his
adult life in...
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Hillman was a
British automobile marque created by the Hillman-
Coatalen Company,
founded in 1907,
renamed the
Hillman Motor Car
Company in 1910. The company...
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combination brought in
Sunbeam to form S T D Motors.
Talbot began to make the
Coatalen and S T D
Motors Paris designed Talbot 8-18
which was not a success. Roesch...
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Conceived to
replace the Crusader/Zulu on the
production lines,
Louis Coatalen designed a
companion engine for the V-12 Cossack,
giving it the name Afridi...
- It is
today on
display at the
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.
Louis Coatalen's Automobiles Talbot-Darracq team was
short of
funds and so
little new development...
- V-8 aero
engine first marketed in 1913. The
first aero-engine from
Louis Coatalen was the 110 hp, a water-cooled V-8 with side-valve
cylinders of 80mm (3...
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Wilhelm Allers, Emil von Behring,
Curzio Malaparte, Axel Munthe,
Louis Coatalen and
Maxim Gorky are all
reported to have
owned a
villa there, or to have...
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timing system was not
accepted for an
official record.
Campbell persuaded Coatalen to sell the
Sunbeam to him,
painted it blue and
renamed it Blue Bird, already...
- with the Rolls-Royce
Eagle and
Sunbeam with the
Sunbeam Cossack.
Louis Coatalen designed the
Cossack as a twin
overhead camshaft 60° V-12, with four valves...
