[2] At the end of 1919, the manufacturer was quoting a list price for the car of 30,000 francs in bare chassis form.

[1] Two new models were launched in 1922 - the 11CV, with a 2-litre engine, and a badge-engineered version of the Salmson AL3, a one-litre four-cylinder powered sports car.

[1][4] Several owners in succession now acquired and tried to preserve the company, which by 1928 was in the hands of Mécanique-Outillage-Pièces détachés (MOP),[5] presumably primarily a tools/auto-parts business.

[6] By 1923 the 2-litre 11CV had become a mainstay of the range, and it was a Bignan powered by one of these engines that achieved a podium finish, coming in third overall, at the first Le Mans 24 Hour race.

A feature of the engine with which other auto-makers only caught up many decades later was the incorporation, on the "competition" version, of four valves per cylinder.

Appropriately, the company's slogan at the motor show in October 1924 was "Toujours en avant du progres" ("Always ahead of progress").