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Timelines
Thirty-four chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 112 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
34
one per marque
Dated events
807
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2026
Peugeot to Fuji
Busiest decade
1930s
112 events across 28 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Cycles Automoto: A Timeline of Key Competitive and Market Events
An early force in Saint-Étienne, the cradle of French cycling.
Open the Automoto Timeline- 1889Professional Society Formed. Businessmen Montet Chavanet, Claudius Gros, Pierre Lapertot and Messieur Pichard form the "Société de Constructions Mécaniques…
- 1923Major Race Victory. Henri Pélissier wins the Tour de France riding for Automoto, marking the beginning of a dominant…
- 1946Post-War Production. Following the war, Automoto manufactures 40,000 bicycles in a single year.
- 1962Final Cessation. All two-wheeled production under the Automoto name officially ceases as the brand is fully integrated into…
Two centuries of the lightweight bicycle
Events per decade — darker is busier, and every cell opens its marque’s timeline. The twelve earliest-founded marques are shown first; the leftmost column gathers the two events from before 1850.
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Alphabetical, each with its span, event count and decade-by-decade rhythm
