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Georges Tradée Bouton (1847–1938) was a French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman
Jules-Albert de Dion Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion de Wandonne (; 9 March 185619 August 1946) was a French pioneer of the automobile industry. He invented a steam-powered car and used it to win the world's first auto race, but his vehicle was ...
founded the
De Dion-Bouton De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer and railcar manufacturer, which operated from 1883 to 1953. The company was founded by the Marquis Jules-Albert de Dion, Georges Bouton, and Bouton's brother-in-law Charles Trépardoux. Ste ...
company in 1883. The pair first worked together in 1882 to produce a self-propelled steam vehicle. The result gave birth to the company which, at the time, went under the name Trépardoux et Cie. Bouton was the nominal winner of the 'world's first motor race' on 28 April 1887, when he drove a de Dion-Bouton vehicle 2 kilometers from Neuilly Bridge to the
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. He was also the only competitor.


Personal life

Georges Bouton and his brother-in-law Charles Trépardoux ran a 'scientific toys' shop in Léon, Landes.


De Dion-Bouton

The genesis of De Dion-Bouton was in 1881 when de Dion saw a toy
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in a store window at "passage Léon" (covered passage in Paris) and asked the toymakers to build another. The engineers Georges Bouton and Charles Trépardoux had been making a bare living selling scientific toys, and Trépardoux had long dreamed of building a
steam car A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE). ECEs have a low ...
, but could not afford it. Dion, who was inspired by steam railway locomotives, could finance the work. Trépardoux et Cie was formed in Paris in 1883. This became the
de Dion-Bouton De Dion-Bouton was a French automobile manufacturer and railcar manufacturer, which operated from 1883 to 1953. The company was founded by the Marquis Jules-Albert de Dion, Georges Bouton, and Bouton's brother-in-law Charles Trépardoux. Ste ...
automobile company, the world's largest
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for a time, becoming well known for their quality, reliability, and durability. However, both Bouton and Dion survived the company they had founded, as De Dion-Bouton went out of business in 1932.


See also

* American De Dion (automobile)


References

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