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Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was born on December 25, 1878, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a center of watchmaking in northwestern Switzerland. [1] He was the second child of Joseph-Félicien Chevrolet, a watchmaker, and Marie-Anne Angéline Mahon. [2] His family was originally from Bonfol, now in the canton of Jura.
Louis Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss-American car racer who designed the first Chevrolet automobile and also founded the ‘Frontenac Motor Corporation’. He learned the basics of mechanics from his father, a watchmaker, and as a teenager used to build, repair, and race bicycles.
In 1921, with his other brother Arthur, he founded the Chevrolet Brothers Manufacturing Company, a company developing motors for the automotive and aviation industries. With the 1929 crisis nearing, Louis left his company to his brother and was hired in the Chevrolet factory in Detroit.
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (ur. 25 grudnia 1878 w La Chaux-de-Fonds w kantonie Neuchâtel, zm. 6 czerwca 1941 w Detroit w stanie Michigan) – szwajcarski kierowca wyścigowy.
Family tree of Louis CHEVROLET. Inventor, Industrialist, Businessman , Motorsport - Auto racing. Born Louis Joseph CHEVROLET. Swiss-American race car driver, mechanic and entrepreneur who co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911. Born on December 25, 1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland
Louis Chevrolet, automobile designer and racer whose name is borne by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors, an enterprise from which he derived little profit and of which he was a minor employee in the last years of his life.
History of the famed Chevrolet Brothers. Includes rare photographs, period articles, and original signed documents of Louis Chevrolet, Arthur Chevrolet, and Gaston Chevrolet.
