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BoryVoiturette

1907 Austria-Hungary Open small car 1 production year
Production1907
Recorded originAustria-Hungary
ClassOpen small car
Built1 units

József and Pál Bory's sole automobile, reportedly completed down to its fasteners for the owners of the Csalapuszta estate in 1907 after József studied vehicle manufacture in Berlin. Bory had brought home Laurin & Klement and Zedel air-cooled twins, copied the Zedel pattern for motorcycle use, then substantially redesigned that engine for this car and incorporated several original solutions. Contemporary reporting described the inexpensive, simple and attractive voiturette as suitable for passengers and potentially adaptable into a small business/delivery vehicle; the latter was a proposed use, not a second known body or production model. The car won first prize when shown at the 1908 Budapest International Automobile Exhibition. No original factory type name, dimensions, gearbox data, performance figure or surviving chassis is securely documented, so Voiturette is a transparent descriptive identity and unsupported specifications remain unknown.

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Production chronology1907

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Research notes

One commissioned car was completed; specialist Hungarian vehicle history states that no further Bory automobiles were constructed.