Founded by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand in 1898, the company that would become France’s biggest automobile manufacturer started humbly enough, with a solitary 1¾hp De Dion-engined prototype.

By 1904 Renault was building its own engines - large-capacity fours at first, followed by the AX twin - and in 1908 introduced its first six-cylinder model despite Louis Renault’s aversion to such complication.

Renault exported many luxury chassis to the USA in the 20th Century’s early years, opening a showroom on New York's Fifth Avenue in 1909.

This particular model is built on the Type CC chassis and has a 3,560cc four-cylinder engine, cone clutch and four-speed gearbox.

The car was exported new in chassis form to the USA where it was fitted with the formal, town car, Salamanca body by Brewster & Company that it retains to this day.

Proudly described as ‘Carriage Builders to American Gentlemen’, Brewster was the oldest and finest coachbuilder in the United States.

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