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Chenard et Walcker

November 6, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

This small company will forever be in the motor sports history books, thanks to one major race win – the first running of the Le Mans 24 hour race. The company is Chenard et Walcker. The company was founded in France in 1900 by Ernest Chenard and Henri Walcker. Chenard was a railway engineer and like many other formative car builders, he also manufactured bicycles. Walcker … [Read more...]

Delage

October 1, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

This article is about another pioneer in the field of motor sports – the French Delage company. Louis Delage founded his company in 1905 after working for Peugeot for several years. His plan was to act as an assembly plant and he originally designed bodies and bought single and twin cylinder engines from de Dion Bouton to power them and were known as the Type A and Type B. … [Read more...]

Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq

September 13, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

Here on Motoring Weekly we have written about all three parts of this entity and this grouping of marques didn’t last that long in an industry that was hit by the Great Depression of the late 1920s and was constantly evolving with smaller companies either going bust or being gobbled up by larger conglomerates. The three companies had an interesting evolution of their own … [Read more...]

Hispano-Suiza

August 31, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

This week’s history article is about another pioneer of motoring: Hispano-Suiza – translated as Spanish-Swiss, which it sort of was. In 1898, a Spanish Army captain called Emilio de la Cuadra started a company to build electric cars. He met a young Swiss engineer in Paris called Marc Birkigt, who became instrumental in designing cars for the company. In 1902, de la Cuadra sold … [Read more...]

Darracq

June 28, 2018 by sjw Leave a Comment

Motoring Weekly's marque articles have covered some of the earlier car companies that have been swallowed up by other manufacturers that are still producing vehicles. This week I am going to talk about Darracq, another pioneer in the European market. Alexandre Darracq founded his car company in 1896. He was a Frenchman of Spanish origins and was an entrepreneur and astute … [Read more...]

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