• Completely restored to outstanding cosmetic condition • Photographs of the restoration available • Present ownership since circa 2015 • Currently undated by the Veteran Car Club Born in Bordeaux in 1855, Alexandre Darracq made a fortune in the bicycle industry's boom years of the late 19th Century and like many of his contemporaries subsequently turned his attention to powered transport.

Darracq's new venture was financed by the sale of his Gladiator bicycle business to Dunlop, though he continued to make bicycle components in his new factory at Suresnes, Seine.

After two false starts that saw him abandon electric carriage manufacture and then attempt unsuccessfully to sell the built-under-licence Léon Bollée voiturette , Darriacq launched his first successful internal combustion-engined automobile in 1900.

Darracq was a businessman rather than an engineer and had recruited designer Paul Ribeyrolles to be responsible for its production.

That first 6½hp single-cylinder voiturette ...