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The Delage Type DE was manufactured between 1921 and 1923, with some 3,600 built, and as few as 65 surviving today. It was powered by a 32 hp, four-cylinder side-valve engine coupled to a four-speed gearbox. This Delage DE bears the coachbuilding plate of M. Taubes of Paris, and is bodied as a particularly handsome torpédo-style tourer...

Speed records in the bicycling world date to the earliest days of their invention, and innovative methods of shielding the record challenger from headwinds saw great advancement with widespread availability of the motorcycle. Before long, two-wheeled vehicles were built expressly for this purpose, placing the motorcycle’s pilot as far rearward a..

Ettore Bugatti created the Type 40 in 1926 as the successor to the popular Brescia model. Only 796 units were produced with many receiving custom coachbuilt closed or convertible bodies. A capable touring car with excellent road manners, the Type 40 filled the void for many practically minded clients with more sporting tastes. According ..

When brothers Maurice and Georges Sizaire founded Sizaire-Frères in 1920, they were already well established in the French automobile industry, having founded two Parisian-based automotive manufacturing companies, Sizaire-Naudin as well as Sizaire-Berwick, around the turn of the century. The automobile industry was changing at a rapid p..

Louis-René Panhard and Émile Levassor partnered to build automobiles in 1890 using engines licensed from Daimler. Arthur Krebs, a pioneering French aeronautics and automotive engineer, joined the firm in 1897 as general manager and continued with the company through 1916. By 1908, both founders had died and the business passed to Panhard’s son H..

Built from 1924 through 1928, the Morgan-Monotrace filled a perceived niche in the market between a sidecar motorcycle and an automobile. The original design was created by Mauser in Germany but licensed for production by Monotrace in St. Etienne, France. Its nickname, the “single track motorcar,” hints at its purpose as its two-wheeled design a..

Debuted at the October 1921 Paris Motor Show as the Type C, the Citroën 5 HP (“5CV” from 1925) was engineered by Edmond Moyet as a smaller and even more affordable companion to the Type A. Powered by an economical 856 cc inline four-cylinder engine, the 5CV was well-equipped despite its value price, including standard electric starting and light..

Having founded the world’s first aviation company in 1906, with his younger brother Charles, the pioneering Gabriel Voisin would go on to build over 3,500 military aircraft for France and other countries through WWI. After subsequent exploits in prefab building and aircraft-hangar production, he then founded Avions Voisin, which became one of th..

The Delage GL, or Grande Luxe, was designed in 1923 to garner a share of the high-end luxury market dominated by marques like Rolls-Royce and Hispano-Suiza. Fitted with an advanced X- member chassis and a powerful overhead-valve inline six-cylinder engine, the GL was built in a very small number with only approximately 180 chassis being manufact..

This evocation of a Voisin Type C28 was created as a movie prop for use in the filming of Sahara, a 2005 movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz. Based on a novel by best-selling author Clive Cussler, the film was a continuation of his Dirk Pitt action stories. Cussler was a noted car enthusiast and it is believed that his ..