CAR BUILT IN 1883

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 163, 27 March 1939, Page 4

CAR BUILT IN 1883

M. GE!OS&EiS BOUTON : • FRENCH DIES * Way ’back in 1865, tiny workshop in Ifimechanic, 'iiamed Georges Boutyii, with model'' stcajp • engines' and. .ingenious mechanical toys. • One of, iiis* anodels was seen by a • wealthy Breton, Count de Dion, who was interested in engineering. The Cbuii.jiikvent to see Gc&'iick Bouton, meeting.,gicw 'tJ§?hfgmous m|rfcor car, manufacturing firm, of De , states thq Paris eorrosof the) Herald. - (?eprges BoutojjT liak died, aged 92/ •.Cliipital for t}ie<%tMsging: 'oft the De Company) ~ In;;/ wiuj, provideU''lW the Cotint,~.ah%' wi<J*- tech-' iiical skill by thei meclia'nic. 1 '• ! '5 . The : Count, aii pnonhouk /man, M. Bouton; a little fellow with a walrus moustache, became a familiar couple in Baris. The motor cars they produced became the most famous and most popular in France.

Their first car was steam driven, but it Avas speedily improved, and shortly afterwards petrol Ava s adopted. The firm, under M. Bouton’s direction, Avas the first to make a “popular car” at a. reasonable price. ' M.' Boiiton became rich, but setbacks Avere in store, for the political, associations of the Count (Savßo, at-.-,the age of 82, isjuAv the Majquis. de. Dion and 1 a. ..Senator.), led--boycotted, ~by ..„ a 11.-, . good ; Kepublican s during the reaction provOked by the Dreyl'us case. ... „ The but it stiff.kwrvivcdeV’and mamifaetmed ears for niany "years, - To-tlay it makes lorricg.' : J ‘ ■ Z-- •

M. Bouton ~eiltere<l'the* ’firm a poor man. if not ’ exaetly-vpopr when he died, he -was far from