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- Instance of
- automobile manufacturer
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Parent organization
- Courbevoie
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Image
- Jeantaud Milord, 1898.jpg
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- inception
- 1893-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1906-01-01
- product or material produced
- electric car
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thumb|Jeantaud Milord (1898)
The Jeantaud was a make of French automobile manufactured in Paris from 1893 until 1907. It was the brainchild of Charles Jeantaud, a coachbuilder who built his first electric carriage in 1881. Among the vehicles he constructed was the first car to set a land speed record at , driven by Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, as well as coupes and hansom cabs; in these the driver sat high, and to the rear. Some cars had an unusual bevel-gear front-wheel-drive layout. From 1902 to 1904, Jeantaud offered a range of 2-, 3- and 4-cylinder gasoline-engined cars similar to 1898 Panhards.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jeantaud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.