Thirteen days after selling its first car, the Winton Motor Carriage Company became an international marque, selling a car to John Moodie of Hamilton, Ontario
Wednesday 6th April 1898 Thirteen days after selling its first car, the Winton Motor Carriage Company became an international marque, selling a car to John Moodie of Hamilton, Ontario. The international sale was a testament to Alexander Winton’s pioneering enthusiasm for car advertising. The Scotch-born Winton had undertaken the industry’s first “publicity stunt” a year…
Armand Peugeot set up his own company, Société Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot
Thursday 2nd April 1896 Armand Peugeot set up his own company, Société Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot. He built a factory at Audincourt, dedicated to the manufacture of cars with an internal combustion engine. By 1899 sales cars for Peugeot got up to 300, which is pretty decent considering that during that year only 1200 cars…
August Horch
Monday 12th October 1868 Born on this day, August Horch, German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.
Armand Peugeot
Monday 26th March 1849 Born on this day, Armand Peugeot, French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. From 1865, Armand and his cousin Eugène[1] became involved with the running of the company, then called Peugeot Frères Aînés. They took it into cycle manufacture in 1882, and exhibited…
Belgian engineer Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir was born in Mussy-la-Ville (then in Luxembourg, part of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg since 1839)
Saturday 12th January 1822 Belgian engineer Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir was born in Mussy-la-Ville (then in Luxembourg, part of the Belgian Province of Luxembourg since 1839). He developed the first commercially successful internal combustion engine, a single-cylinder two-stroke engine which burnt a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a “jumping spark” ignition system…