For the French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, see Philippe Ariès

Philippe Ariès

Philippe Ariès was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood, in the style of Georges Duby. Ariès has written many books on the common daily life. His most prominent works regarded the change in the western attitudes towards death.Ariès regarded himself as a...

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The Ariès was a French

France

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 automobile

Automobile

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 manufactured by a company in Asnières-sur-Seine

Asnières-sur-Seine

Asnières-sur-Seine is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, along the river Seine. It is located from the center of Paris.-Name:...

 from 1903 to 1938. The first cars were two- and four-cylinder vehicles built 20 chassis

Chassis

A chassis consists of an internal framework that supports a man-made object. It is analogous to an animal's skeleton. An example of a chassis is the underpart of a motor vehicle, consisting of the frame with the wheels and machinery.- Vehicles :In the case of vehicles, the term chassis means the...

 at a time in a large factory. These shaft-drive cars had a rather unusual double rear axle, while the engines were built by Aster

Aster (auto parts company)

Aster was a French manufacturer of automobile parts; from 1900 to 1910 the company produced chassis, though it is not known if they built complete cars.The firm whose full name was Ateliers de Construction Mecanique l'Aster from St...

. In 1907 the company made a V4 engine

V4 engine

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 with desmodromic valves; it also made six-cylinder cars at the time. Ariès entered the field of commercial vehicle

Commercial vehicle

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 production in 1910, mainly for the purpose of supplying the French army

French Army

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; the works built mainly military trucks during World War I

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, as well as Hispano-Suiza

Hispano-Suiza

Hispano-Suiza was a Spanish automotive and engineering firm, best known for its luxury cars and aviation engines in the pre-World War II period of the twentieth century. In 1923, its French subsidiary became a semi-autonomous partnership with the parent company and is now part of the French SAFRAN...

 aero engines.

After the war the company presented three new models; one was a four-cylinder, a 7 cv

CV

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 OHC

Overhead camshaft

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 1085 cc, while the other two were variations on a 15cv 3-liter. One had a sv

SV

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 Aster unit, while the second featured a sporty ohc engine; some of these last were quite successful in racing events. Ariès stopped production of its 1100 cc and 3-liter cars, which had become obsolete, during the financial crisis of the 1930s. They were replaced in the catalogue with new 1500 cc and 2-liter models with an odd arrangement of a three-speed gearbox augmented by two-speed gears in the back axle, for a total of six speeds forward. Few were made.

At the outbreak of World War II

World War II

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 production was suspended; after the war, Ariès attempted a comeback by briefly making moped

Moped

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 engines under the name ABG.