Carrosserie Vanvooren

Carrosserie Vanvooren was a French Coachbuilder based in the north-western Paris suburb of Courbevoie. The company concentrated on producing car bodies for luxury cars, being closely associated, during the 1930s, with the products of Hispano-Suiza, Bugatti, Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

In addition to their production facilities on the edge of town, Vanvooren had a show room at 33 in the exclusive 8th arrondissement of Paris.

Carrosserie Vanvooren was active between 1910 and 1950, but in terms of output and of reputation the company's golden decade was the 1930s.

Achille Vanvooren (? - 1924) began his Corbevoie-based business in 1910, producing bodies for carriages and cars. The firm's reputation grew rapidly. The oldest surviving Vanvooren bodied car, dating from 1911, is a Mercedes 38/70HP, delivered to Samuel Colt, heir to his uncle's weaponry dynasty. A Vanvooren bodied Panhard & Levassor Typ X14 25HP from the same year also survives as does a 1912 Vanvooren bodied Hotchkiss 55HP Roadster. Nevertheless, the number of car bodies produced each year remained small.

In 1919 the Vanvooren retired from the business he had created, handing over control to his technical director, Marius Joseph Daste, and to his son-on-law.

A licence was obtained from Carrossier Weymann in 1923 for the production of light-weight car bodies. Charles Weymann is remembered as an aircraft pioneer, and his car body designs, with timber frames and synthetic leather skins, clearly drew inspiration from the aircraft of the time. Vervooren mounted Weymann designed bodies on various chassis including those of the Hispano-Suiza H6 and of the Bugattis T43 and T44.

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