The blue Clément-Bayard 7 CV Type 4M 3B Torpedo from 1913

The blue Clément-Bayard 7 CV Type 4M 3B Torpedo from 1913.

Clément-Bayard, Bayard-Clément, was a French manufacturer of automobiles, aeroplanes and airships founded in 1903 by entrepreneur Gustave Adolphe Clément. Clément obtained consent from the Conseil d’Etat to change his name to that of his business in 1909. The extra name celebrated the Chevalier Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard who saved the town of Mézières in 1521. A statue of the Chevalier stood in front of Clément’s Mézières factory, and the image was incorporated into the company logo.

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