Fiat

Fiat

Nine eminent personalities of Piedmont, among them also Giovanni Angelli, later president of the company, assumed 1 June 1899 r. spółkę samochodową - Italian society for the construction and trade of automobiles. Soon this complicated name …

DE DION BOUTON

DE DION BOUTON

One day ... 1882. in Paris, a descendant of an old French family, the eccentric marquis Albert de Dion saw a toy, a small steam locomotive, which delighted him so much, that he forgot about everything in front of her. He found the manufacturers of this model, …

Daimler

Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler was born in 1834 r. in Schrondorf, lying in the distance 30 km east of Stuttgart, as the second of four children of master bakery Johannes Daimler. Po ukończeniu wydziału mechanicznego na politechnice w …

Citroën

Citroën

W 1919 r. the Citroën company began to produce cars in Paris with the symbol of the roof gear in the trademark.

Andre Citroen was born in 1878. as the fifth child of a Dutch merchant of Polish diamonds. As a twenty-three-year-old graduate of the polytechnic he founded in Paris …

Cadillac

Cadillac

The origins of this company date back 1899 r., when it was in the American city of Detroit Henry Ford, with the support of the town mayor, founded the first car factory under the name Detroit Automobile Company. The factory did not do well, so the millionaire Murphy and the entrepreneur Leland took over, …

Bugatti

Bugatti

Bugatti's successes are above all the successes of an extraordinary personality in the automotive world - Ettore Bugatti. He was born 15 September 1881 r. in Milan as the son of a painter. He produced cars in German Alsace as a subject of the German Emperor, and then stood …

BMW

BMW

The company was established from two factories in Munich, mainly producing aircraft engines: BFW czyli Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG, founded in 1916 r., Oraz Rapp Motor Works, founded in 1913 r. The boom in the aviation industry during World War I increased Rapp's production, which …

Benz

Benz

Karol Benz was born in 1844. in Karlsruhe as the son of a train driver. He has been attending for several semesters! to the polytechnic, but he did not finish his studies and started working as a mechanic in a mechanical plant in Karlsruhe. 27-year-old Benz, wishing to become financially independent, founded …

Steering wheels on old cars

Steering wheels on old cars.

The first horseless vehicles differed from their predecessors only by the crank used to steer the front axle. Vehicles with a steering column, placed in the center, they made an unusual impression and were called a coffee grinder - because the steering was done …

Radiators in old cars

Radiators in old cars.

Gottlieb Daimler's first high-speed car engine was air-cooled, at the same time, however, water cooling was tried. One of the first water cooling systems, with which the designers tried to dissipate the heat obtained as a result of fuel combustion from the engine, used the principle …