De Dion & Bouton 8 HP - 1903

De Dion-Bouton was an active French car manufacturer, as a car manufacturer from 1883 to 1932. The brand disappeared definitively in 1968 and the last vehicles built were fire trucks. In 1902, the brand launches the popular - type K1 or K29 - front engine in two seats 6 HP or four seats 8 HP. A twin-cylinder block appeared in 1903 followed a year later by a four-cylinder. Star of the procession of the Mid-Lent at the Paris Carnival 1903 for the right bank: the "Queen of Queens" Marie Missiaux parade mounted on "The Triumph" 10, an electric chariot De Dion-Bouton. At the top of one of the masts surmounting the tank a sign bears the inscription: Automobiles De Dion-Bouton. Prestige automobiles, decorated, precede and follow this tank11. In 1903, a model De Dion-Bouton with bench, belonging to the businessman Ucal-Henri Dandurand, was the first motor vehicle registered in Quebec under number Q1 painted on the back by its owner. In 1904, type V production. In 1905, 8 HP and 9 HP models were launched while the tubular frame was abandoned9. From that year, De Dion-Bouton gradually moved towards luxury cars with limo launches from 12 to 35 HP.