{"id":21037,"date":"2016-11-10T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/de-dion-bouton-1898-triciclo\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:29:32","slug":"de-dion-bouton-1898-triciclo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/de-dion-bouton-1898-triciclo\/","title":{"rendered":"De Dion Bouton, 1898, Tricycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

De Dion Bouton, tricycle, 1898, France<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

De Dion Bouton & Co.<\/strong>\u00a0was founded in Paris in 1883 and initially produced steam boilers\u00a0that were fitted to the first cars; from 1893 the company started to build internal combustion engines for the automobile industry. The first De Dion Bouton Tricycle was presented in\u00a01895<\/strong>\u00a0and is considered the first real popular individual means of transport: it was produced until 1903 and was sold not only in France, but also England and Italy.
\nOriginally producing 0.5 bhp, the four-stroke single-cylinder engine with two-speed gearbox, kept on being developed until it reached 3.5 bhp in 1903; it could overcome a 10% gradient slope without the need to pedal.
\nParticularly interesting was the\u00a0dry battery<\/strong>\u00a0which provided electricity for ignition; it had an autonomy of\u00a0150 hours<\/strong>.
\nAn appreciated optional of the period was a small trailer, built by Belvalette coachbuilder, which, attached behind the tricycle, allowed to carry two passengers. The company, holder of many motoring patents, such as the famous\u00a0De Dion rear axle<\/strong>, stopped production in 1933.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n