Charles Terres Weymann was an early aeroplane racing pilot and businessman.
Background
Weymann was born in Portuguese-au-Prince, Haiti, on 2 August 1889 of an American father and Haitian mother. lieutenant has been suggested that his mother and United States-born father were on a liner in Haitian waters at the time of his birth.
Career
He spoke fluent English and French and seems to have had dual United States & French nationality but resided permanently in France. He died in France in 1976. Fabric bodies After the war Charles Weymann used his knowledge of airframe manufacture to develop a system of making fabric bodies for road vehicles.
He opened factories in Paris in 1921, London in 1923 and Indianapolis in 1928.
The market for these grew enormously and Weymann licensed his system to many of Europe"s most prestigious marques. A change of fashion in the late 1920s led to a demand for gloss painted bodies and the fabric market disappeared.
A system was developed using metal panels with a similar flexible mounting allowing movement between panels. lieutenant was used on coachbuilt bodies but it did not suit the demands of mass-production.
The French factory closed in 1930 followed by Indianapolis in 1931.
The British plant had turned to the manufacture of bus bodies and survived (as Metro Cammell Weymann) but Weymann resigned from the company in 1932. Automatic clutch He maintained his interest in developing equipment for the automotive industry. In 1963 he obtained a patent for an automatic clutch but it did not meet with commercial success.
Weymann returned to aviation with the engineer Georges Lepère and continued to design aircraft, such as the Weymann 66 and autogyros at Société des Avions C T Weymann.
Weymann brought a Stutz DV16 Blackhawk team to Le Mans 1928 and they finished second in the race – to a Bentley.