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...preneur, and the founder of the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft company, which later became [[Tatra]]. [[Category:European founders of automobile manufacturers]]

...omobile manufacturer for a short time. He also founded the [[Mondial de l'Automobile]] (Paris Motor Show) in 1898. [[Category:Automotive Company Founders|De Dion, Albert]]

'''Martin Fischer''' (1867–1947) was a Swiss [[automobile]] designer who built cars under [[Turicum]] and Fischer names. Some of his {{automobile-bio-stub}}

...y soon became the largest car manufacturer in Austria-Hungary. In 1925 the company was acquired by [[Škoda]] and operated henceforth under the brand [[Škoda * [http://www.quido.cz/osobnosti/laurin_klement.htm Biography of company founders (in Czech)]

...y soon became the largest car manufacturer in Austria-Hungary. In 1925 the company was acquired by [[Škoda]] and operated henceforth under the brand [[Škoda * [http://www.quido.cz/osobnosti/laurin_klement.htm Biography of company founders (in Czech)]

...n who ran a short lived automobile manufacturing firm, [[Georges Richard (automobile)|Georges Richard]], from 1897, copying [[Benz]] cars of the era. In 1900, h [[Category:Automotive company founders|Richard, Georges]]

...2 to produce a self-propelled steam vehicle. The result gave birth the the company which, at the time went under the name De Dion. [[Category:Automotive Company Founders|Bouton, Georges]]

He and his brothers jointly founded the Renault company on 25 February 1899. He and Louis raced the cars it built starting the next [[Category:French founders of automobile manufacturers]]

...ndustrialist of Danish origin. He moved to Germany and established several automobile and motorcycle manufacturing companies, including [[DKW]] and [[Framo]]. [[Category:Automotive company founders|Rasmussen, Jørgen Skafte]]

...t car carrying the [[Alfa Romeo]] badge was the 1921 Torpedo 20/30 HP. The company gained a good reputation but in 1927 came very close to liquidation. These [[Category:Italian automobile designers]]

...Horch''' (October 12, 1868 - February 3, 1951) was a German engineer and [[automobile]] pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing firm that would become [[Audi]] ...orch was not entitled to use it any more.) Consequently, Horch renamed his company to ''Audi Automobilwerke GmbH'' in 1910, ''Audi'' being the Latinization of

...gen, Switzerland, d. July 4 1998) was a Swiss automaker and creator of the automobile brand ''[[Monteverdi|Monteverdi]]''. At the beginning of his career, Montev [[Category:Automobile company founders|Monteverdi, Peter]]

...ën]] automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth-largest [[automobile]] manufacturer in the world by the early 1930s. [[Category:Automotive company founders|Citroen, Andre]]

'''Elio Zagato''' (1921 - September 15, 2009) was an italian automobile designer.<ref>[http://www.zagato.it/pdf/eliozagato.pdf Elio Zagato (1921-20 ...and [[Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato]]. Also, he raced cars and was one of the founders of

...&mdash;January 2, 1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the [[Automobiles|automobile]] industry and the founder of the French firm [[Peugeot]]. In 1881 Armand attended a training course at a company in Leeds. This convinced him of the future of mechanical transport, and he

...is holding, overcoming scandals and labour problems. After World War I the company jumped from 30th to third place among Italian industrial companies. The fir [[Category:Italian founders of automobile manufacturers]]

...to 1912. The name E-M-F was gleaned from the initials of the three company founders: Barney '''Everitt''' - a custom auto body builder from Detroit, Willaim '' ...ace the defective parts in their vehicles at a cost of US$1 million to the company. The E-M-F name continued into 1912 with the Studebaker name becoming more

...of the early advances in automobile technology were first invented by the company. ...early models for $2,000 (USD). At the end of that year, they relocated the company to a large factory where they designed two additional models. They brought

...October 1877 &ndash; 22 August 1963) was the founder of the [[Morris Motor Company]] and a philanthropist. ...ert Austin]], Morris purchased the bankrupt Wolseley Motor Company and the company passed into his personal control. Wolseley were at this stage in fairly adv

...o Bugatti''' (September 15, 1881, Milan, died on August 21, 1947) was an [[automobile]] designer and manufacturer. Before founding his own automobile company, Ettore designed a number of engines and vehicles for others. [[Prinetti &

The '''Maxwell''' was a brand of [[automobile]]s manufactured in the United States of America from about 1904 to 1925. ...[[Benjamin Briscoe]], an automobile industry pioneer, was president of the company at its height.

...production machinery in place of hand labor. Despite his establishing an [[automobile]] business, Alexander Darracq was a man who didn't like driving cars or eve ...racq was producing more than ten percent of all automobiles in France. His company became involved with [[Grand Prix motor racing]], winning a number of major

...ary 1921) is an English aircraft engineer who established the Australian [[automobile]] manufacturer ‘[[Nota]]’ in 1952. Buckingham employed his expertise i ...two men". It is a detailed book capturing all the details of the Nota car company from the day it was founded up until the present day.

...and Archibald Frazer Nash (1889-1965). Production ceased in 1923 but the company kept trading until 1925. After making several cars for their own use, the two founders launched the GN car in 1910 building then in the stables at the Frazer Nash

...e of the founders of [[Renault]] and one of the foremost pioneers of the [[automobile]] industry. ...design and manufacturing. However, in 1908 he took overall control of the company after Fernand retired for health reasons. (Marcel had been killed in the 19

...the United States from 1946–1963 based in Willow Run, Michigan (USA). The company was also known as '''[[Kaiser-Frazer]]''' from 1946 to 1951. ...W. Frazer]], president of the Graham-Paige Corporation started making an [[automobile]]s with the brand names '''Kaiser''' and '''Frazer''' after World War II. K

...st famous for his role in being the driving force behind the [[MG|M.G. Car Company]]. ...eir radiator. Wrigley had also been a major supplier to the [[Morris Motor Company]] and was bought by them in 1923 and presumably with the help of contacts,

...r his own name in Glendale, California between 1949 and 1955. [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] (US) running gear was used. About 36 cars had been made when the lic [[Category:Automotive company founders|Kurtis, Frank]]

...ferences with Durant in 1915 and sold his share of the company to him. The company was folded into Durant's [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]. ...as a racing car driver, and a year later became employed by a Philadelphia company developing a then-revolutionary [[front-wheel-drive]], racing car. His rac

...sotta-Fraschini Models}}'''Isotta-Fraschini''' is an Italian manufacturing company which produces marine engines and other goods. In the early 20th century it ...he motto was: "Import, sell, repair cars". Prior to establishing their own company in 1904, Isotta and Fraschini assembled [[Renault]] automobiles .

...k) was a patent lawyer and inventor who was granted a U.S. patent for an [[automobile]] in 1895.<ref name ="flink51"> Flink, p. 51 ''Probably the most absurd act :''See also [[Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers]]''

...ember 8, 1861–March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States [[automobile]] industry, the founder of [[General Motors]] and [[Chevrolet]] who created ...he made a similar success and was soon president of this horseless-vehicle company. In 1908 he arranged the incorporation by proxies of [[General Motors Corpo

...utomobile]] manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of [[Dodge|Dodge Brothers Company]]. ...r plant. In 1894 they went to work as machinists at the Dominion Typograph Company in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.<ref name=hyde>Hyde, Charles K. (2003). ''Ridin

...les Warren Nash''' (January 28, 1864 — June 6, 1948) was a United States [[automobile]] entrepreneur and served as an executive in the [[automotive industry]]. ...higan where he was noticed by [[William C. Durant]] of The Flint Road Cart Company. Durant hired him in 1890, and Nash became a supervisor.

...iast [[William Walmsley]], the co-founder in 1922 of the [[Swallow Sidecar Company]], maker of motorcycle sidecars, and which became [[Jaguar Cars]] Limited a ...ses in Blackpool they moved to Coventry in 1928. William Walmsley left the company in 1934 and it changed its name to SS Cars Ltd.

...ager of the Allegheny locomotive erecting shops of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). ...ays to reduce the costs of production, such as putting an end to finishing automobile undercarriages with the same luxurious quality of finish that the body warr

[[Category:American founders of automobile manufacturers]]] [[Category:Automotive company founders|Hall, Jim]]

...ers had built, among other things, a rifle, a steam boat, a glider, and an automobile. ...is life. He was greatly affected by the death of his brother in 1912 in an automobile accident.

...English [[automobile]] designer and builder who founded the [[Austin Motor Company]]. ...]].<ref name=lambert-chapter-1/> He later worked for the Longlands Foundry Company in Melbourne which made locomotive boilers, wheels and gold mining equipmen

...nt of the mobility company we know today. He was “General Director” of the company from its foundation until he was forced to relinquish his position in 1942. ...got to know the [[Rapp Motorenwerke]] (Rapp Engine Works) in Munich. This company had the necessary skilled workforce and production facilities for manufactu

...were various cars made by [[Maserati]] of Italy, for the Alfieri brothers (founders of [[Maserati]]) and for the [[straight-six]] engine. ...a (59 made) and the [[convertible|spider]] shown at the 1948 [[Salone dell'automobile di Torino]] (2 made).

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...ile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered [[automobile]]. Other German contemporaries, [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach] ...reated the ''[[Benz Patent Motorwagen|Motorwagen]]'', the first commercial automobile, powered by a [[Internal combustion engine|gasoline engine]]. It had three

...t, Germany. His father, [[Ferdinand Porsche]] senior, was also a renowned automobile engineer, and his nephew, Dr. [[Ferdinand Piech]], was chairman of [[Volksw ...echnical knowledge since his childhood. Father and son opened a bureau of automobile design, at Stuttgart in 1931.

...Tucker''' (September 21, 1903 &ndash; December 26, 1956) was an American [[automobile]] designer and entrepreneur. ...the "[[Tucker '48]]" and initially nicknamed the "[[Tucker Torpedo]]"), an automobile which introduced many features that have since become widely used in modern

...cial business or the users may be organized as a democratically-controlled company, public agency, cooperative, ''ad hoc'' grouping. Today there are more than ...f a shared vehicle costs significantly less than car ownership, this makes automobile use more accessible to low-income households.

...h imported luxury marques like Lexus and Infiniti, and from the Ford Motor Company's own foreign luxury brands. ...incoln Motor Company to build Liberty aircraft engines. After the war, the company's factories were retooled to manufacture luxury automobiles.