Dufaux automobile
Dufaux et Cie was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles.
Company History
The brothers Charles Frédéric Dufaux and Dufaux started in 1904 in Geneva with the production of automobiles. Charles Frédéric Dufaux and were cousins of Henri and Armand Dufaux, who had founded five years earlier, the motorcycle manufacturer Motosacoche.
1907 ended the production of Dufaux.
Rolling stock
The first car was a race car for the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904, which was equipped with one of the first eight-cylinder in-line engines for road vehicles ever. With 12,763 cc he reached almost the exact volume of the later Bugatti Type 41 " Royale ". It was followed by other race cars with four-cylinder and eight-cylinder engines with up to 26,400 cc. Street -grade vehicles, there were from 1905. During the year the Model 35 CV were presented with four-cylinder engine and an eight-cylinder model. 1906, the four-cylinder models came with 16 CV 4000 cc and 35/40 CV do so.
Depending on a car of this brand is on display in the Museum of Transport in Lucerne Switzerland and in the collection of the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse (France).