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:''For cycle, motor-cycle, motor-car, aeroplane and airship companies associated with French industrialist Adolphe Clément-Bayard - see Clement (disambiguation) Clément-Bayard, Bayard-Clément, was a French manufacturer of automobiles, aeroplanes and airships founded in 1903 by the entrepreneur Adolphe Clément-Bayard (née Adolphe Clément).〔〔 The name celebrated the Chevalier Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard who saved the town of Mézières in 1521. A statue of the Chevalier stood in front of the Mézières factory, and the image was incorporated into the company logo.〔〔〔 From 1903 Clément-Bayard automobiles were built in a modern factory at Mézières, known as ''La Macérienne'', which Clément had designed in 1894 mainly for building bicycles. The company entered the field of aviation in 1908, announcing the construction of Louis Capazza's 'planeur', a lenticular airship, in ''L'Aérophile'' in May 1908.:〔()L'Aérophile 15 May 1908 pp.182-4〕 however it was never built. A Clément-Bayard also built Alberto Santos-Dumont's ''Demoiselle No 19'' monoplane that he had designed to compete for the ''Coupe d'Aviation Ernest Archdeacon'' prize from the Aéro-Club de France. It was the world's first series production aircraft and by 1909 Clement-Bayard had the license to manufacture Wright engines alongside their own design.〔 In 1908 'Astra Clément-Bayard' began manufacturing airships at a new factory in La Motte-Breuil.〔 In 1914 the factory ''La Macérienne'' at Mézières was seized by the advancing German army and automobile production in Levallois-Perret, Paris, was suspended as the factory was turned over to war production, military equipment and military vehicles, aero engines, airships and planes.〔 In 1922 the company was broken up and the factory in Paris was taken over by Citroën.〔〔 Circa 1909 Adolphe Clément received permission from the Conseil d'État to change his name to ''Adolphe Clément-Bayard''.〔〔〔 ==Motor manufacturing== :''For the motor manufacturers Clément-Gladiator, Clément-Panhard, Clément-Stirling, Clément-Talbot, Diatto-Clément, and Clément - See Adolphe Clément-Bayard.'' In 1896 Adolphe Clément was associated with Lord Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury and (yet to be convicted) fraudster Harry John Lawson of the British Automobile Commercial Syndicate Ltd.〔 They bought the Gladiator Cycle Company, a French manufacturer of bicycles which had been founded by Alexandre Darracq and Paul Aucoq in 1891 at Le Pré-Saint-Gervais in north east Paris.〔〔 They then merged the Gladiator Cycle Company into a major bicycle manufacturing conglomerate of Clément, Gladiator & Humber (France) Ltd. In 1897 BACS was the first of many of Lawson's ventures to collapse,〔 but Clément remained a director of 'Clément- Gladiator'.〔 The range was expanded, and in 1902 a motorised bicycle led to cars and motorcycles.(See Clément Gladiator cycles for further details)〔〔〔 Clément-Gladiator was divided in 1903, such that Lord Charles Chetwynd-Talbot founded the English arm "Clément-Talbot Ltd" with Clément's financial backing, and in parallel Clément also formed Clément-Bayard at Mézières (now Charleville-Mézières).〔(Motorbase, The complete encyclopedia of Vintage Cars – Rob de la Rive Box – Clément-Bayard )〕 He chose the name Bayard in commemoration of the Chevalier Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard who saved the town of Mézières in 1521. A statue of the Chevalier stood in front of the Mézières factory, and the image was incorporated into the company logo.〔〔 After the split both marques built very similar cars, but the specifications gradually diverged. Initially, Clément-Bayard cars were imported to Britain under the Talbot brand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clément-Bayard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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