Amédée Bollée

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L'Obéissante photographed in 1875.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City , center of Vietnamese Catholicism with bells by Bollée
Carillonneur Brian Swager (San Francisco, USA) plays Amédée Bollée's carillon at Perpignan's Cathedral

Amédée Bollée (* 1844 ; † 1917 ), who is also known as Amédée Bollée père (father) because of his son of the same name , was a French bell founder and automobile pioneer from Le Mans .

Life

Bollée was the son of the bell founder Ernest-Sylvain Bollée . In 1873 he built his first steam car the Obedient (l'Obéissante) and drove this car from Le Mans to Paris in 1875, for which he received 75 police warnings on the way. He named other vehicles “the one from Le Mans” (Mancelle), “Marie-Anne”, “the fast one” (Rapide), “the new one”. He was granted a patent in France in 1875 for the axle pivot steering (1806 Georg Lankensperger ), which he (re) invented for this reason .

His sons Amédée Bollée Junior and Léon Bollée followed in his footsteps as automotive designers and founded the companies Amédée Bollée fils and Automobiles Léon Bollée .

Bell foundry

The Bollée family's bell foundry was also very successful internationally and equipped many cathedrals around the world with bells and whole bells. For example, the large bells of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam were made by Bollée. There are six bells hanging there with a total weight of 30 tons of bronze and an excellent sound. Bollée made a similarly loud bell for the cathedral in Bordeaux .

vehicle construction

In his company of the same name, Amédée Bollée , he manufactured the vehicles. In 1878, Amédée designed the Mancelle model , 50 of which were built, which is why Mancelle is also considered the first production car. An original copy is in the Musée de l'Automobile de la Sarthe in Le Mans.

La Mancelle - 1878

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  1. ^ National Automobile Museum (ed.): The Greatest Cars of the Century, p. 125, Edition Belles Terres, Strasbourg 2005, ISBN 2-913231-12-8
  2. ^ A century of automotive technology - commercial vehicles, page 15, 175. VDI-Verlag 1987 ISBN 3-18-400656-6
  3. ^ Institut international d'informatique Léon Bollée ( Memento of May 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnam )

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personal data
SURNAME Bollée, Amédée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bollée, Amédée père
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bell founder and automobile pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 1844
DATE OF DEATH 1917