VETERAN CAR GUIDE
Decauville Decauville was based at Seine-et-Oise , France , and produced a small car powered by two 1.75hp De Dion engines on the same crankcase mounted under the seat , called a voiturelle . By 1900 , the engine was moved to the front , with a round bonnet and dashboard radiator .
Deckert Although Monsieur Henri Deckert appeared on the motoring scene in the latter part of 1897 , little is known about him or the various motor vehicles that carried his name . It is believed that the only known surviving Deckert motorcar is an 8hp example dating from 1902 .
Delahaye Emile Delahaye retired in 1901 , but the enterprise that made its first car in 1895 kept the name . Léon Desmaris and Georges Morane bought the business in 1897 . By 1902 , a vertical twin appeared , although the single-cylinder-engined cars were made up to 1904 .
Delin M Delin developed a successful bicycle manufacturing operation , which led to the production of a motorcar in 1899 . This was shown at the Brussels Exposition of 1899 , and had a flat-twin engine . In 1900 , he exhibited a light voiturette and various models followed , culminating in a four-seater tonneau with 8hp engine . However , M Delin could not compete with the market at large , and the company closed in 1902 . A certain M Mathieu took over some of the machinery and made cars up to 1904 .
Dennis Dennis Brothers Ltd , Guildford , England from 1899 to 1915 . In 1899 , it built a De Dion-engined tricycle , just for show . By 1901 , it was making cars with 8 or 10hp De Dion engines under a De Dion-type bonnet . By 1903 , the bonnets were higher with front-mounted grilletype radiator and Aster engines . By 1904 , the famous overhead worm drive was adopted .
English Mechanic In 1900 , a magazine called English Mechanic and World of Science and Art was launched , and featured design and construction of cars that could be built at home . The originator was T Hyler White . The series started in May 1899 with a tricycle featuring a 1.75hp De Dion engine . In January 1900 , the first of 56 parts on ‘ A small car and how to build it ’ appeared . To keep costs down , amateur engineers were encouraged to use secondhand materials . Usually the DIY builder then claimed the credit .
1902 Dennis .
Flint Made in Flint , Michigan , USA , by ABC Hardy . In 1902 , he began to make a two-seater , 8hp , single-cylinder Roadster with left- or right-hand tiller steering for $ 850 . He made 52 of these , but ceased in 1902 because he was unwilling to pay the Seldon patent .
Ford Henry Ford started the Ford Motor Company in Detroit , USA in 1903 . The first production car – the Model A – used a two-cylinder horizontally opposed 1645cc engine in a Runabout-type body , and was initially assembled from proprietary parts . By 1904 , it had moved to a new factory making a new design , and by 1905 300 employees were making 25 cars a day . By 1906 , it was making 100 cars a day .
Gamage Aster Gamage of Holborn , London , England was a famous department store . It offered cars between 1903 and 1904 , both one- and two-cylinder with either a De Dion or Aster engine .
Georges Richard Situated at Ivry-Port , Seine , France , the Richard Company made photographic equipment and then bicycles . In 1901 , Henri Brasier left Mors to join Georges and Max Richard . The Georges Richards of 1903 were a single-cylinder voiturette with 5.5hp , and in 1904 two twins and three fours were in the range , the largest offered being 40hp .
Germain SA des Automobiles Germain was founded in 1873 in Monceau-sur-Sambre , Charleroi , Belgium to make railway carriages . It bought the rights in 1897 from Emile Levassor to make Daimler Phoenix engines and the Panhard-Levassor car in Belgium , and the first cars were called either Daimler Belge or Panhard Belge . The two-cylinder design was still in production in 1901 , when it acquired a licence to also build Renault cars . It became a very successful company but car production ceased in 1914 .
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