Alma

Alma was a short-lived French automobile manufacturer associated with Établissements Alma, a company established in Courbevoie in 1926. The marque belonged to the large but highly fragmented population of small French motor manufacturers that appeared during the early development of the European automobile industry. Rather than relying on a purchased engine, Alma pursued a proprietary power unit for a compact and relatively refined car, an approach that differentiated the company from many small producers that assembled vehicles from commercially available components. The principal product associated with the marque was the Alma Six, also styled Alma6. It was a small two-seat coupé or voiturette powered by an approximately 1.64-litre proprietary inline-six engine. The combination of a compact body, two-seat configuration, and six-cylinder engine gave the car a distinctive position within the light-car market. Available reference material identifies the Alma Six as the brand’s defining model, but does not establish a broader range of production vehicles, detailed specifications beyond the approximate engine displacement, sales totals, or export activity. Alma operated from Courbevoie in the Seine area, part of the industrial environment surrounding Paris. Its production appears to have remained very limited. The company ceased automobile production in 1929, during a period when many niche marques faced difficulty achieving sufficient scale, distributing costs, and competing with larger manufacturers. The available sources do not document a specific liquidation event, acquisition, bankruptcy proceeding, or successor company, so Alma’s closure should be described simply as the end of its brief manufacturing activity. Today, Alma is principally of historical interest as a minor French marque and as an example of interwar experimentation with compact cars and proprietary engineering. The brand is particularly associated with Henri Vaslin, an aeronautical engineer credited with designing or engineering the Alma Six. No reliable information in the supplied references establishes a broader executive structure, founder identity, financial performance, production volume, or surviving corporate ownership. Alma should be distinguished from unrelated contemporary organizations and trademarks using the same name.

Établissements Alma was established in 1926 in Courbevoie, in the Seine area of France, to manufacture automobiles. The company entered a French market populated by numerous small and specialized marques. These manufacturers often attempted to distinguish themselves through unusual engineering, compact dimensions, sporting character, or more elaborate equipment, but many struggled to achieve the production scale required to survive against better-established competitors. Alma’s stated engineering direction was to develop a refined small car around its own engine rather than use a bought-in power unit. The marque’s best-known and apparently principal model was the Alma Six, also referred to as the Alma6. This vehicle was configured as a two-seat coupé or voiturette and used a proprietary inline-six engine with a displacement of approximately 1.64 litres, commonly reported at about 1,640–1,642 cubic centimetres. The model’s six-cylinder layout was notable in relation to its compact format and formed the central technical identity of the marque. Henri Vaslin, an aeronautical engineer, is associated with the design and engineering of the Alma Six. The available historical reference does not provide a full account of his role within the company, nor does it identify the founders or a complete management team. It also does not establish whether Alma produced additional models in meaningful numbers. Accordingly, the Alma Six is treated as the brand’s defining product rather than as one item in a documented multi-model range. Production remained very limited. Alma’s automobile activity ended in 1929, only three years after the company’s establishment. The short operating period places the marque among the many small French manufacturers whose commercial lives were curtailed during the consolidation of the automotive sector. The available source characterizes the end of production in the context of pressure on niche marques, but does not specify a formal insolvency, merger, takeover, or precise closure mechanism. Alma’s historical significance therefore rests less on market scale than on its place in the interwar French automobile landscape. It represents a small manufacturer attempting to combine a compact vehicle format with proprietary engine development. The marque is now chiefly remembered through specialist automobile histories and references to the Alma Six. No reliable evidence supplied for this entry supports claims about production totals, pricing, exports, advertising campaigns, corporate successors, or the survival of the business after 1929.

• 1929

  Automobile production ends

  [1]Alma (French automobile)en.wikipedia.org

  Alma’s limited automobile production ended after a brief operating period of approximately three years.

• 1926

  Établissements Alma established in Courbevoie

  [1]Alma (French automobile)en.wikipedia.org

  Établissements Alma was established in Courbevoie, Seine, to develop and manufacture small French automobiles.

• 1926

  Alma Six introduced

  [1]Alma (French automobile)en.wikipedia.org

  The marque’s defining model, the two-seat Alma Six or Alma6, appeared with an approximately 1.64-litre proprietary inline-six engine.

A niche French interwar automobile marque offering a compact, relatively refined two-seat car with a proprietary six-cylinder engine.

• Compact automobile · 1926

  Alma Six

  The Alma Six, sometimes styled Alma6, was Alma’s principal known automobile. It was a compact two-seat coupé or voiturette intended to combine a small-car format with a more sophisticated proprietary power unit. Its engine was an inline six-cylinder design of approximately 1.64 litres, or about 1,640–1,642 cc. The model is associated with aeronautical engineer Henri Vaslin and was produced during Alma’s short 1926–1929 operating period.

1. 1Alma (French automobile)en.wikipedia.org
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