this seems to have the same floor mounted steering as a T bucket

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1214901115902266&set=gm.3415032008763597&idorvanity=2216000102000133

a rare explanation of the Owen Magnetic (I've posted about them before) skip to 1:45 in this video

the video then shows the DeDion Bouton trike, then the Megola motorcycle, and a Stanley

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a41024853/weird-wonderful-wheels-of-pebbles-unorthodox-propulsion-class/

for the engineering drawings of the Owen Magnetic I posted http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-owen-magnetic-transmission-electric.html  

for the electrical schematic: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/01/thanks-to-robert-c-for-box-of-books.html

Brooklyn built 1901 De Dion Bouton Vis a Vis Motorette with a top notch umbrella / parasol

The DeDion Bouton is a very important part of automobile history. But I just learned that DeDion made a licensing agreement to build an American equivalent of the European DeDion here in the United States. 

Some were imported and assembled here and others were apparently mostly entirely built here, but by 1901 DeDion became the largest manufacturer of the automobile in the world and one of the oldest since Count Albert DeDion had licensed Georges Bouton and Charles Trepardoux to build light steam carriages for him 20 years prior. 

In 1899 DeDion introduced a full line of tricycles, quadricycles, and then a full fledged small motorcar. They became successful in racing as well as in sales to the public and grew a reputation for being well built, fast and reliable. 

 
This one only had one driver owner, and two collector owners until 1992, and one collector owner until now, this certainly does show it was appreciated instead of seen as a flipping investment

The car still retains its original lamps and its original De Dion Brooklyn, New York rubber floor mat. 

https://dragoneclassic.com/currentofferings/1901-dedion-bouton/

Paris-Rouen Reliability Trial, 22Jul 1894, Comte de Dion (#4), in the De Dion-Bouton 20 CV Victoria

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/auto-racing-1894-1942.380814/page-381#post-13630875

De Dion Bouton on stamps

1894 De Dion-Bouton automobile, designed and engraved by Jacques Combet, and issued by Mali on August 12, 1968, Scott No. 110.  and I happen to have one in that old stamp book of mine that I made when I was 7 or 8. That's one of the stamps that got me to do these posts.

a De Dion Bouton in the first Paris to Peking rally

racing cars 132 years ago

1887. Georges Bouton and Baron Dion with the Type-III steamer at the Neuilly-Versailles race.

https://hogyantortent.com/napi_erdekes_63/

Steam Tricycle - Albert De Dion (controllers) and Georges Bouton 1887

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208944415996570&set=a.4705775571281&type=3&permPage=1

A De Dion-Bouton car fitted with puncture-proof ducasble tyres (each element comprises a ball the size of a tennis ball), 1903

http://mezzaluna.me/post/49783357726

photo by Lartigue, that incredibly talented guy who made these other photographs:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/terrific-photography-of-jacques-henri.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/photography-of-jacques-lartigue.html

1903 De Dion Bouton. How about those tires? !

https://www.facebook.com/groups/youngdriver/permalink/1869273816677260/

De Dion Bouton steam tractor and luxury coach variety, mostly due to Steve's research

http://feldgrau.info/engines/12851-de-dion-bouton-et-trepardoux above

Steve found the middle picture in the 1902 book "Motor Cars and the Application of Mechanical Power to Road Vehicles" by Rhys Jenkins and copied the bottom picture from the September 26, 1896 issue of "Scientific American Supplement"

but getting the images is only a sliver of the interesting stuff, read the post Steve did about these unusual vehicles http://serviside.blogspot.com/2012/01/beginning-of-end.html

Albert de Dion, Georges Bouton et C.-A. Trépardoux dans une automobile à vapeur -1885

Found on https://www.facebook.com/marc.tudeau?fref=nf

the first version of design schools for automobiles, was correspondence.

and this was because very few guys could move to New York and afford to attend the Carriage Draftsmen and Mechanics school there.

Today, if you want to learn how to design cars, you have your choice of design schools, like Detroit’s College for Creative Studies, the Art Center College of Pasadena, Pratt in New York and schools in Italy, Japan and elsewhere, but it’s not a curriculum that’s offered at every college. You still have to move to New York or Detroit or Milan or Pasadena or one of the other cities with a design school.

In the 1880's, the only place in North America where you could learn how to design carriages was in New York City, at the Technical School for Carriage Draftsmen and Mechanics. Classes were taught at the Metropolitan Museum, three nights a week.

Because he had the most aptitude for not only learning and using his talent for design, but also teaching it, Andrew Johnson began his correspondence school for everyone who lived elsewhere in America.

Some of the most famous of his students are familiar names, Durant, Fisher, Nash, and Dietrich.

Andrew Johnson began his life in design at a carriage and sleigh company in Maine in 1870. Just the right time to learn everything there was to know about carriages, coachbuilding, and horse drawn wagons, and to be in the business as automobiles came along

He married the sleigh company owner's daughter, and was sent to New York's Technical School for Carriage Draftsmen and Mechanics where he won a scholarship from the National Carriage Builders Association to study in Paris under Dupont for carriage design

By age 30, he was working at Brewster and Co. of New York City, America’s most prestigious carriage maker, later to be known for their custom automobile bodies with unusual heart shaped radiator grilles

He became the Principal of the carriage school in New York, and then bought it.

The Fischer Brothers hired him to teach in Detroit's Cass Tech High School,

full gallery at http://rokemneedlearts.com/andrewjohnson/

1908 De Dion Bouton

antique French car advertising posters

All found on https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.bracquemond.7?fref=photo

the first car race happened when the worlds 2nd car was made. The Wisconsin 1878 race. The 2nd race was in France, this might be from that race. 1884 De Dion Bouton

found  on http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2012/05/worlds-oldest-running-automobile.html
1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trapardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout.

 It is steam-powered, achieved speeds of 38 mph, was a veteran of four London-to-Brighton runs, and participated in the 1887 race. It got 20 miles on a tank of water.

For everything there is to know on this, and the earliest De Dion Bouton vehicles: http://serviside.blogspot.com/2011/11/land-tugs-de-dion-bouton-steam-bogie.html

For the history of the first and 2nd race: http://serviside.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-auto-race-pet-peeve-and-hazards.html

The oldest three wheeler you're likely to ever see, an 1899 De Dion Bouton

if you think you recall seeing this before, thanks for being a long time reader! I posted a gallery, maybe a better gallery than this, a couple years ago: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/1899-peugeot-de-dion-bouton-was-at.html