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Established in 1919 by innovative engineer and successful industrialist André-Gustave Citroën, his eponymous company went on to become one of the largest automakers in France and the world’s fourth-largest automobile manufacturer by 1932. Committed to mass-production techniques, Citroën possessed a deep appreciation of Henry Ford’s assembly proc..

The C1 was the first car produced by Gabriel Voisin, founder of the aircraft company Avions Voisin. Rather than starting from scratch, Voisin purchased the rights to build a larger, more luxurious car based on a prototype Citroën. The four-cylinder engine of the C1 was of Knight design, utilizing sleeve valves for nearly silent running and featu..

The Delage Type DE was manufactured between 1921 and 1923, with some 3,600 built, and as few as 65 surviving today. It was powered by a 32 hp, four-cylinder side-valve engine coupled to a four-speed gearbox. This Delage DE bears the coachbuilding plate of M. Taubes of Paris, and is bodied as a particularly handsome torpédo-style tourer...

Speed records in the bicycling world date to the earliest days of their invention, and innovative methods of shielding the record challenger from headwinds saw great advancement with widespread availability of the motorcycle. Before long, two-wheeled vehicles were built expressly for this purpose, placing the motorcycle’s pilot as far rearward a..

Ettore Bugatti created the Type 40 in 1926 as the successor to the popular Brescia model. Only 796 units were produced with many receiving custom coachbuilt closed or convertible bodies. A capable touring car with excellent road manners, the Type 40 filled the void for many practically minded clients with more sporting tastes. According ..

When brothers Maurice and Georges Sizaire founded Sizaire-Frères in 1920, they were already well established in the French automobile industry, having founded two Parisian-based automotive manufacturing companies, Sizaire-Naudin as well as Sizaire-Berwick, around the turn of the century. The automobile industry was changing at a rapid p..

Louis-René Panhard and Émile Levassor partnered to build automobiles in 1890 using engines licensed from Daimler. Arthur Krebs, a pioneering French aeronautics and automotive engineer, joined the firm in 1897 as general manager and continued with the company through 1916. By 1908, both founders had died and the business passed to Panhard’s son H..

Built from 1924 through 1928, the Morgan-Monotrace filled a perceived niche in the market between a sidecar motorcycle and an automobile. The original design was created by Mauser in Germany but licensed for production by Monotrace in St. Etienne, France. Its nickname, the “single track motorcar,” hints at its purpose as its two-wheeled design a..

Debuted at the October 1921 Paris Motor Show as the Type C, the Citroën 5 HP (“5CV” from 1925) was engineered by Edmond Moyet as a smaller and even more affordable companion to the Type A. Powered by an economical 856 cc inline four-cylinder engine, the 5CV was well-equipped despite its value price, including standard electric starting and light..

Having founded the world’s first aviation company in 1906, with his younger brother Charles, the pioneering Gabriel Voisin would go on to build over 3,500 military aircraft for France and other countries through WWI. After subsequent exploits in prefab building and aircraft-hangar production, he then founded Avions Voisin, which became one of th..