La Torpille [1]

La Torpille was a small French automobile marque created by brothers Léonce and Camille Bobrie, bicycle makers and Berliet agents based in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire. The brothers began building cars with a tandem-seated cyclecar that they named La Torpille. It was fitted with a 4-cylinder Ballot engine of 6 or 8 hp mounted on an Arbel chassis, while the front axle and bodywork were made by the Bobries themselves. The car…