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Timelines
Timelines
Thirty-one chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 96 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
31
one per marque
Dated events
689
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2025
Peugeot to Brooks England
Busiest decade
1930s
96 events across 25 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Idéale History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Technical Events
The history of Idéale is a century-long narrative of industrial perseverance and technical mastery that transformed a modest Parisian stamping workshop into…
Open the Idéale Timeline- 1851Founder Birth. Jean-François Tron is born in Cuneo, Italy; his family later emigrates to Marseille, France.
- 1908Infrastructure Expansion. Tron purchases the neighboring "La Baleine" factory to increase manufacturing capacity.
- 1936Production Peak. Annual production reaches a staggering 500,000 units; the firm employs 220 people.
- 2017Production Milestone. Ducès begins manufacturing high-end No. 90 Spéciale Compétition saddles at a rate of one per day.
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
