5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
6 novembre 2016
Lieu:
High Street, Crawley, United Kingdom
Informations supplémentaires:
Léon Bollée was a French automobile manufacturer and inventor. Bollée founded the company Léon Bollée Automobiles in 1895 in Le Mans. In 1896 he patented and began manufacturing the three-wheeled vehicles he had invented in 1895 which he called the Voiturette (which can be translated as autoette). These had a horizontal motor and were equipped, for the first time, with rubber tires. A new model with many modifications was brought to the 1897 Paris-Dieppe race, driven by Paul Jamin, [3] and the Paris-Trouville race and won both events with respective speeds of 24 mph (39 km/h) and 28 mph (45 km/h).[2] By 1903, Bollée had started producing larger vehicles and soon gained a good reputation for quality. When the Wright brothers visited France to show their aircraft, Bollée let them use his Mans factory. Léon Bollée was injured in a flying accident in 1911 and never really recovered as he also had a pre-existing heart problem and died in 1913. His widow continued to run the company but in 1922 it was bought by Morris Motors and the company was renamed Morris-Léon Bollée, the intention being to use the new company to sell Morris designs in France and circumvent the then current French import restrictions. Morris sold the company in 1931 to a group of investors who renamed it Societé Nouvelle Léon Bollée and production continued until 1933.
