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...

business; Sunbeam motorcycles were not made until 1912. In-house designer Louis Coatalen had an enthusiasm for motor racing and accumulated expertise with engines...

In partnership with Louis Coatalen he founded the Hillman-Coatalen Company in 1907, later the Hillman Motor Company after Coatalen's defection to Sunbeam...

volume production. Between 1920 and 1925 Roesch worked with STD under Louis Coatalen to develop a six-cylinder push-rod engine of striking simplicity and...

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...

French Open was named after Garros in 1927. The car was sold post WWI to Louis Coatalen, the chief engineer of the Sunbeam Motor Car Company. In 1922 it was...

Christian 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...

car was entered by Louis Coatalen, who was chief engineer of the Sunbeam Motor Car Company. It was named 'Toodles V' (after Coatalen's pet name for his...

War. 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...

Wolverhampton, England, started to build aircraft engines in 1912. Louis Coatalen joined Sunbeam as chief engineer in 1909, having previously been Chief...

engine. 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...

French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870) 1962 – Louis Coatalen, French engineer (b. 1879) 1963 – August Jakobson, Estonian author and...

V12 racing and land speed record car "Sunbeam Tiger". He is met by Louis Coatalen, Sunbeam's Managing Director and Chief Engineer who describes the effort...

pistons of aluminium instead of cast-iron or steel. Bentley next visited Louis Coatalen at Sunbeam, with the result that the same innovation was used in all...

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...

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...

driver for Sunbeam, along with Henry Segrave. Sunbeam's engine designer, Louis Coatalen, became a friend and assisted his motor-racing career, driving Sunbeam...

English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946) 1879 – Louis Coatalen, French engineer (d. 1962) 1884 – Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian activist...

engines before World War I, and at the suggestion of chief designer Louis Coatalen it decided to install one of its nine-liter (550 cu in) flathead V12...

Overview Manufacturer Sunbeam of Wolverhampton Production two Designer Louis Coatalen Body and chassis Body style Open-wheel racing car Powertrain Engine...

British 8-cylinder aero-engine that was first run in 1916. In March 1916 Louis Coatalen, the chief designer at Sunbeam, responded to the Admiralty's request...

with stiff frame and effective shock absorbers Louis Delâge - Angers, 1890: luxury car maker Louis Coatalen - Cluny, 1895: contributed to the famous "Liberty"...

was a further development of the V-12 Maori III. Work on it began by Louis Coatalen in 1917. It used aluminium blocks rather than cast iron, cast in blocks...

as well as, remarkably Issy to Reims. That year Jean Chassagne met Louis Coatalen, joined the Sunbeam racing team and withdrew from flying. Throughout...

program was the charismatic and ingenious Breton Louis Coatalen. Designer, engineer and racer Coatalen was inspired by the belief that "Racing improves...

Rolls-Royce 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...

also known as the Sunbeam P.1, was a 1920s British diesel aero engine. Louis Coatalen, Sunbeam engine designer, started work on a diesel powered aero-engine...

Retrieved 12 June 2020. "Bonhams : 'Black Bess' - The ex-Roland Garros/Louis Coatalen/Colonel Giles/Peter Hampton. 1913 5-litre Bugatti Type 18 Sports Two-Seater...

Spartan was a British 12-cylinder aero-engine designed and built in 1916. Louis Coatalen concentrated on water-cooled engines for the most part, but did design...

capital it now had antiquated plant and aging products. During the 1920s Louis Coatalen had overspent Sunbeam's funds on Grand Prix racing. Not only had this...