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Amédée Bollée built a number of steam carriages, beginning in 1873. His sons, Amédée fils and Léon, took part in the 1895 Paris-Bordeaux-Paris race, and Léon patented a tandemseat, three-wheel vehicle with a horizontal single-cylinder engine that same year. Light in weight, his voiturettes performed well, achiev
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Léon Bollée Automobiles was founded in 1895 in Le Mans. In 1896 it patented and began manufacturing the three-wheeled vehicles he had invented in 1895 which he called the Voiturette.The position of the passenger, at the front, earned the Voiturette the nickname "Mother-in-law killer" ("Tue Belle-mère", in French). T
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