JAGUAR
W 1922 r. two young motorcycle enthusiasts William Lyons and William Walmsley founded the Swallow Sidecar Company in Blackpool with share capital 1000 pounds sterling. Company, as it is clear from the name itself, produkowała …
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ISOTTA-FRASCHINI
ISOTTA-FRASCHINI
Cesare Isotta I bracia Vincenzo, Oreste and Antonio Fraschini founded the village of 1899 r. in Milan, the company Societa Milanese d'Automobili Isotta Fraschini. Initially, they produced French cars Renault and Mors, and two years later they released their own models. Very beneficial …
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August Horch is one of the first engineers, who got notoriety for building cars. Was born in 1868 r. and at the age of twenty-eight he was the production manager at Benz & Co. w Mannheim, where he learned about car production.
After three years …
Hispano-Suiza
Hispano-Suiza
The Hispano-Suiza car factory under the name of La Hispano-Suiza Fabrica de Automobiles was established in 1904 r. in Barcelona from the former Castro factory, producing cars from 1901 r. Its origins are associated with the name of the young Swiss engineer Marc Birkigt, which in large …
Ford
Ford
When in 1899 r. the first oldsmobiles appeared on the roads. Henry Ford founded the Detroit Automobile Company. The company was not going to make luxury cars for millionaires, but practical vehicles for farmers, constituting then 85% population. They needed vehicles …
Fiat
Fiat
Nine eminent personalities of Piedmont, among them also Giovanni Angelli, later president of the company, assumed 1 June 1899 r. spółkę samochodową - Italian society for the construction and trade of automobiles. Soon this complicated name was abbreviated to Fabbrica Italiana Automobili …
DE DION BOUTON
DE DION BOUTON
One day ... 1882. in Paris, a descendant of an old French family, the eccentric marquis Albert de Dion saw a toy, a small steam locomotive, which delighted him so much, that he forgot about everything in front of her. He found the manufacturers of this model, mechanics of Georges Bouton and Trepardoux, …
Daimler
Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler was born in 1834 r. in Schrondorf, lying in the distance 30 km east of Stuttgart, as the second of four children of master bakery Johannes Daimler. After graduating from the mechanical department at the Technical University of Stuttgart, he spent two years in …
Citroën
Citroën
W 1919 r. the Citroën company began to produce cars in Paris with the symbol of the roof gear in the trademark.
Andre Citroen was born in 1878. as the fifth child of a Dutch merchant of Polish diamonds. As a twenty-three-year-old graduate of the polytechnic he founded in Paris …
Cadillac
Cadillac
The origins of this company date back 1899 r., when it was in the American city of Detroit Henry Ford, with the support of the town mayor, founded the first car factory under the name Detroit Automobile Company. The factory did not do well, so the millionaire Murphy and the entrepreneur Leland took over, …