Société des Nouveaux Ateliers A. Deguingand was a short-lived French automobile manufacturer.
[1][2][3][4] Since 1901 Albert Deguingand (1872–1943) had been in partnership as an automobile manufacturer with Lucien-Marie Vinot-Préfontaine (1858–1915), but his business partner had died in the war and in 1926 Vinot-Deguingand, the company they had founded together, had run out of customers and its factory in the west of France was sold to Donnet-Zédel.
[3] The model failed to gain traction in the market place, however, in an increasingly price sensitive market segment that by now was hotly contested by the volume makers, above all Citroën, whose mass-production strategy left the products of second tier French auto-makers looking expensive.
At the 22nd Paris Motor Show, Deguingand exhibited a smaller model, now in the 5CV car tax band, using a two-stroke 4-cylinder unit designed by Marcel Violet whose two-stroke engine designs were at this time appearing in a number of cars produced in the Paris region.
[6] The car sat on a 2,430 mm (96 in) wheel base and was aggressively priced at just 11,000 francs in October 1928.