The firsts in arrive / Clément (1903)

            Sitges, Garraf, Barcelona (Spain).

49 International Barcelona-Sitges Vintage Car Rally.

The international Rally of vintage cars of Barcelona-Sitges, organized by Fomento de Turismo de Sitges uninterruptedly from year 1958, is sponsored at the present time by Audi and allows to see pieces of authentic museum in operation (previous to 1924) and with its passengers dressed in the clothing of the years in which the vehicle was created.

With the passage of the years the event has been rooting and at the moment it is considered as one of most traditional at European level. According to the organizing sources it would be the second more important encounter of vintage cars in Europe behind a classic one like London-Brighton.

Adolphe Clément of France was one of the first people to get into the car business out of commercial interests rather than innovative ones. He made his fortune making bicycles and pneumatic tires. In 1896 he started to make motorcycles and cars on a small scale based upon the French Gladiator (a company founded by Alexandre Darracq) designs. From 1899 his company produced three and four wheeled cars with De Dion engines, of which the depicted car is an example.

In 1901 Clément started a serious car production line based on an design by Commander Krebs, a manager of Panhard & Levassor. This rear-engined car was known as the Clément-Panhard and became quite popular in England, where it was produced as Stirling-Panhard or Clément-Stirling. This popularity lead to the production of Clément cars in a modern factory in Ladbroke Grove financed by Lord Shrewsbury and Talbot. These cars were known as Clément-Talbot and formed the base of the famous Talbot marque.

Adolphe Clément involved himself in all sorts of  business deals and in doing so even lost the right to sell cars carrying his own name. So in 1903 the French company was renamed Clément-Bayard (after a famous French knight from Mézières, the home town of Clément). With this name the company constructed excellent cars up until the first World War, among them many successful racing cars.

Taken in: España / Catalunya / Sitges (show map)

Taken on: March 18, 2007

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