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De Dietrich Bugatti refers colloquially to a number of early automobile designs by Ettore Bugatti, known as the Types 2 through 7. Importantly, the vehicle known as the Type 2 of 1901 was designed by Bugatti before he joined the automobile manufacturer
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File:Ettore Bugatti in Wien 1903.jpg, Ettore Bugatti his De Dietrich-Bugatti Type 3 (1902).
File:TMS 07 - De Dietrich.jpg, 1905 Bugatti Type 5 replica
File:Btv1b84333530-p077.jpg, The original Type 5, taken before the 1903 Paris–Madrid race
De Dietrich Bugatti refers colloquially to a number of early automobile designs by Ettore Bugatti, known as the Types 2 through 7. Importantly, the vehicle known as the Type 2 of 1901 was designed by Bugatti before he joined the automobile manufacturer Lorraine-Dietrich
Lorraine-Dietrich was a French language, French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer ''Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissements de Dietrich et Cie de Lunéville'' (k ...
in Niederbronn, Alsace, Germany following its successful reception. Types 3-7 were produced for De Dietrich between 1902 and 1904.
Type 2
The Type 2 was a prototypeautomobile
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, Car seat, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport private transport#Personal transport, peopl ...
designed and built by Ettore Bugatti in 1901 with financial support from a Count Gulinelli. It won an award at the Milan
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Trade Fair that year, and gained the notice of Baron Adrien de Turckheim, managing director of the Lorraine-Dietrich
Lorraine-Dietrich was a French language, French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer ''Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissements de Dietrich et Cie de Lunéville'' (k ...
automobile factory in Niederbronn in the then-German Alsace
Alsace (, ; ) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est administrative region of northeastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine, next to Germany and Switzerland. In January 2021, it had a population of 1,9 ...
.
Type 3, 4, and 5
Types 3,4, and 5 were Bugatti's initial works for De Dietrich.BUGATTI, THE PRESTIGIOUS FRENCH BRAND, September 19, 2019/ref>
Type 6 and 7
Types 6 and 7 were also designed by Bugatti while with De Dietrich through 1904. Approximately 100 Types 2-7 were produced from 1902 through 1904.Specifications
See also
*Bugatti
Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a German then French automotive industry, manufacturer of high performance vehicle, high-performance automobiles. The company was founded in 1909 in the then-German Empire, German city of Molsheim, Alsace, by the ...
References
{{reflist Bugatti automobiles Cars introduced in 1900 Cars discontinued in 1907