De-Dion

De Dion-Bouton was a French  railroad car maker and railcar manufacturer operating from 1883 to 1932. The company was founded by the Marquis Jules-Albert de Dion, Georges Bouton (18471938) and his brother-in-law Charles Trépardoux.
The company was organise after de Dion in 1881 saw a toy  locomotive engine in a store window and inquired about the toymakers, to work up another. Engineers Bouton and Trépardoux had been making a starvation-living on scientific toys at a shop in the Passage de Léon, close to the deplore de la Chapelle in Paris.[1] Trépardoux had long dreamed of building a steam car, but neither could afford it. De Dion, already shake up by steam (though in the form of rail locomotives)[2] and with plenty of money,[3] agreed, and De Dion, Bouton et Trépardoux was formed in Paris in 1883. This became the de Dion-Bouton automobile company, the worlds largest automobile manufacturer for a time, becoming well known for their quality, reliability, and durability.[4]

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De Dion on one of his companys early products.





|Contents |
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|1 Steam cars |
|2 Internal combustion engine cars |
|3 Engine provider to Moto Bicycle Builders |
|4 Expansion |
|5 Post-war stagnation |
|6 Railcars |
|7 References |
|8 External links |

[edit]Steam cars

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