A.E.R. was a French

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and one-time subsidiary of B.N.C.; the marque offered two cars patterned on

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models. One was a

sidevalve A flathead engine, also known as a sidevalve engine''American Rodder'', 6/94, pp.45 & 93. or valve-in-block engine, is an internal combustion engine with its poppet valves contained within the engine block, instead of in the cylinder head, as ...

1991cc six-cylinder with

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engine; the other used a Lycoming side valve

straight-eight The straight-eight engine or inline-eight engine (often abbreviated as I8) is an eight-cylinder internal combustion engine with all eight cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase. The type has been produced in side-valve, I ...

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 mos ...

chassis. Unusually, suspension was by a

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device which soon proved unreliable. Production ceased after one year of manufacture (1930), but the cars were later reissued under the name

Aigle Aigle ( French for "eagle", ; ) is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The official language of Aigle is Swiss French. Geography Aigle lies at an elevation of a ...

, in models using conventional suspension.

External links

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