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Darracq
Automobiles Darracq S.A. was a French motor vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1896 by Alexandre Darracq after selling his Gladiator Bicycle company. By 1905 it established branches in the UK, Spain and Italy and then expanded into both cars and aviation engines. In 1920 the British arm became the majority shareholder in Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq ('STD Motors') which was sold to the Rootes group in 1935 such that Darracq ceased to be a distinct marque, instead becoming a badge-engineered Sunbeam.
==1890s - Origins==
Using part of the substantial profit he had made from selling his Gladiator bicycle factory to Adolpe Clément,〔Wise, David Burgess. "Darracq: A Motor Enthusiast who Hated Driving", in Northey, Tom, ed. ''World of Automobiles'' (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 5, p.484.〕 Darracq began operating from a plant in the Paris suburb of Suresnes. The company started with a Millet motorcycle, powered by a five-cylinder rotary engine, but shortly introduced an electric brougham, and in 1898 a Léon Bollée-designed ''voiturette''〔Wise, p.493.〕 tricar.〔Wise, David Burgess. "Davis: The Grand Old Man of Motor Racing", in Northey, Tom, ed. ''World of Automobiles'' (London: Orbis, 1974), Volume 5, p.499.〕 This proved a débâcle: the steering was problematic, the five-speed belt drive "a masterpiece of bad design",〔 and the hot tube ignition crude, proving the £10,000 Darracq had paid for the design a mistake.〔
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