Delamare-Deboutteville

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Delamare-Deboutteville was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville and his assistant Léon Charles Paul Malandin developed an automobile from 1883, which was patented on February 12, 1884. A two - cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine with a 150 mm bore , 230 mm stroke and 8129 cm³ displacement allegedly made 8 hp at 250 rpm. The vehicle was 275 cm long, 165 cm wide and 205 cm high. During the first test drive, the chassis broke apart. In 1887 the experiments were stopped. The vehicle had no influence on the developments of other automobile designers, and it is not considered to be the first automobile in history.

A replica of the vehicle was on view at the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Delamare-Deboutteville.
• Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 . (French)
• Erik Eckermann: Paris patent. In: Automobile and Motorcycle Chronicle . Issue 9/1984, S: 14–51.

Web links

Commons : Delamare-Deboutteville  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Histomobile (English and French, accessed February 23, 2013)