Manufactured in 1914 6 cylinders 14.5 litres 105 horsepower Founded in 1873 by Truxton Slocum LaFrance and his partners, the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company was one of the oldest fire apparatus manufacturers in the United States. With roots that go back to approximately 1832, the companies that went on to become American LaFrance built…
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Manufactured in 1914 2 cylinders 12 horsepower Designed and built by British Royal Flying Corp pilot Barron Ackroyd, this cyclecar prototype was named “El Pampero” to evoke Argentina, a fashionable and exotic location at the time. It featured hand throttle, wire-and-bobbin steering, cantilever front springs, and a belt drive. Ackroyd was killed five years later during…
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This ‘Coupe de Ville” provided the great and definitive foundation for Renault. It was adopted in the Belle Epoque by the educated and libertine French middle-class. In 1912, William Carter bought one and was planning to transport it from Southampton, England to New York City on the RMS Titanic. Carter was saved but the car sunk…
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Manufactured in France in 1910 4 cylinders 22 horsepower 2400 cc Charron was a French automobile manufacturer, based in the Paris conurbation, and active between 1906 and 1930. Although the company Automobiles Charron Limited was established (with a large injection of British finance) only in 1906 (and registered in 1907), its origins date from a business…
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Manufactured in France in 1910 4 Cylinders 14 horsepower 1400 cc “Mother-in-Law Seat” Delage was a French company founded by Louis Delage in 1905 that manufactured racing cars and luxury automobiles. This is a family car with it’s popular and uncomfortable dickie seat. The dickie seat was also known to the British as the “mother-in-law”…
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