A.E.R. was a French

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and one-time subsidiary of

B.N.C. Bollack, Netter, et Cie ''(french: Bollack Netter et compagnie)'', more commonly known as B.N.C., was a small French automobile company in Levallois-Perret, situated on Avenue de Paris 39. History B.N.C. was established by Lucien Bollack (an e ...

; the marque offered two cars patterned on

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models. One was a

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1991cc six-cylinder with CIME engine; the other used a Lycoming side valve

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of 4241 cc and

Delaunay-Belleville Automobiles Delaunay-Belleville was a French luxury automobile manufacturer at Saint-Denis, France, north of Paris. At the beginning of the 20th century they were among the most prestigious cars produced in the world, and perhaps the most de ...

chassis. Unusually, suspension was by a pneumatic device which soon proved unreliable. Production ceased after one year of manufacture (1930), but the cars were later reissued under the name

Aigle , neighboring_municipalities= Vaud: Yvorne, Leysin, Ormont-Dessous, Ollon; Valais: Vouvry, Collombey-Muraz , twintowns = L'Aigle (France), Tübingen (Germany), Bassersdorf (Switzerland) } Aigle (French for "eagle", ; frp, Âgllo) is a his ...

, in models using conventional suspension.

External links

Enthusiast site for the marque (French)
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France {{motorvehicle-company-stub