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Leon Paulet

French automobile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ6524819 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Léon Paulet was an automobile manufactured in Marseille, France, between 1922 and 1925. The Type 6AB used a seven-bearing overhead camshaft 3.4 litre engine, designed by former Delage engineer Arthur Michelat.

The engine had a more than passing resemblance to the Hispano-Suiza, and they took Léon Paulet to court. Paulet was ordered to cease production of the Michelat designed engine. Rather than try to find another engine, Paulet ended production after approximately 20 cars had been built.

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“Leon Paulet” enters the record as french automobile. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Leon, Paulet and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leon Paulet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.