factories. In 1917 the two founders split up. Jules Salomon left the company and met André Citroën, the then director general at Mors and was instrumental in the development of the first Citroen cars. Le Zèbre’s ownership structure was revised, with Jacques Bizet resigning his executive position, although retaining a commercial stake in the company. From 1918, the new Type D was marketed. It had a four-cylinder engine of 998cc and four-speed gearbox, and was rated at 8 HP. It was available in 3-seat torpedo or 4-seat sedan versions. Its selling price of 10,200 F remained very affordable. André Morel, a former test pilot at Berliet was appointed sales manager for the whole of the south of France. In 1921, Edmond Moyet (Chief Engineer), Emile Akar and Joseph Lamy withdrew from the company to create the rival company Amilcar. Le Zèbre struggled to cope with the loss of these key personnel and their associated capital, as well a good deal of their commercial network which Lamy and Akar were able to lure away to their new project. With the Le Zèbre brand destabilized by the loss of key personnel, the original Type A reappeared, delivered with the Type C chassis and a slightly modified body. At the beginning of 1923, only Types A and D appeared in the catalogue, supplemented, at the end of the year, by the Type E, a sports version of the Type D. The pre-war Type C also reappeared, without real improvements, apart from a revised and improved bodywork. It was not until the end of 1924 that a much more serious project saw the light of day, in the form of the Type Z. A car co-designed by the English engineer Harry Ricardo, known in the automotive world for his studies on combustion systems and the many associated patents he held. The Le Zèbre-Riccardo partnership was warmly welcomed by the trade press, which hoped that the Suresnes company will be able to get out of its period of stagnation. From 1925 to 1930, it was the only car marketed by Le Zèbre. In the end only 550 Type Z’s were built, and faced with this new failure and the economic slump, the company closed permanently in 1931. Altogether, Le Zèbre produced 9,500 cars between 1909 and 1931, of which about 250 examples remain today. Bibliography Epopee de la societe Le Zebre by Philip Schram. Gallery