Jules-Albert de Dion

Albert Jules Count de Dion, actually Jules Félix Philippe Albert Compte De Dion (* 1856 in Carquefou, Dept. Loire -Atlantique, . † August 19, 1946 in Paris) was a member of the French aristocracy and was a French automobile pioneer and producer.

Life

Albert de Dion founded in 1881 in Paris by Georges Bouton ( 1847-1938 ) as a partner automotive company De Dion -Bouton. First, the company built a steam-powered car. It is alleged that he had received at the sight of a steam toy cars in the shop window of a toyshop the idea itself to construct steam car, but lacked a suitable technician who knew his way around herewith. This technician he found in Georges Bouton, a mechanic for steam toy that his brother Charles A. Trépardoux, who was also a mechanic for Boiler and steam engines, also was enthusiastic about this idea.

Albert de Dion was considered amorous playboy, but also as an open-minded and enthusiastic towards new techniques. Today still known as the 1893 patented De - Dion axle, a special form of the rigid axle, in which the two drive wheels are connected with a simple profile / tube and the differential fixed to the chassis ( or body ) is connected.

This axis is a high probability of an invention Trépardoux ', not by De Dion himself, who was only contributor to the construction and subsequent company. The inventor Trépardoux, advocate of steam engines, left in 1894, the company disappointed, when de Dion decided by failures in his race for the use of gasoline engines. Further developments proved him right, because already in 1905 made ​​De Dion -Bouton more than 40,000 gasoline engines, which were also used by other manufacturers for their vehicles. In 1900 the company was the largest car manufacturer in the world.

On a steam-powered car de Dion won the race Paris -Rouen in 1894, one of the first car race ever, in which he was, however, disqualified. Furthermore, De Dion in 1895 was instrumental in the founding of the French Automobile Club Automobile Club de France ( ACF) and involved in the holding of the first motor show in Paris in 1898. The increasing competition German manufacturers such as Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft forced De Dion to new ways. So he set up in 1899 a metallurgical laboratory one thing you can evaluate the first research and development center of the automotive world. The company has a significant share of the mass motorization in Europe. With the death of his father Albert on April 26, 1901, he inherited the title of Marquis.

1932 had de Dion, the production of automobiles set as a result of the global economic crisis - the production of commercial vehicles ran until 1952.

Politically he was set more to the right during the Dreyfus Affair, a strong supporter of the condemnation of Dreyfus as guilty.

  • Business (automotive )
  • Automotive pioneer
  • GP rider before 1950
  • Racers (France)
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1856
  • Died in 1946
  • Man
De Dion-Bouton Boiler (power generation) De Dion tube Steam motor Petrol engine 1894 Paris–Rouen Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft
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