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).