Amédée Bollée
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Amédée-Ernest Bollée was a French bellfounder and inventor who specialized in steam cars. He is notable for developing the earliest known form of the independent suspension. After 1867 he was known as
Notre-Dame of Saigon with bells of Bollée
Carillonneur Brian Swager plays the historic carillon of Amédée Bollée at the Perpignan Cathedral.
L'Obéissante photographed in 1875
La Mancelle of 1878
The history of steam road vehicles encompasses the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car
Amédée Bollée
…Rapide grouped the boiler, the engine and the controls at the front of the vehicle, thus making it possible for it to be driven by a single operator. History of steam road vehicles The Bollée family…
Murdoch's model steam carriage of 1784, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Steam carriage by Verbiest of 1679
Cugnot's "Fardier à vapeur" ("Steam wagon") of 1769
A replica of Trevithick's 1801 road locomotive Puffing Devil