De Dion-Bouton Type S

The Type S was the first multi-cylinder car built by De Dion-Bouton, the French maker that until then had made its name with single-cylinder voiturettes and tricars. It carried a two-cylinder engine of 1,728 cc rated at 12 CV, about 8 kW, and it entered the range in 1903, the same year the company moved its engine to the front of the car in the Populaire. It was listed alongside the six-horsepower Types N and Q and the eight-horsepower Type R, and in 1904 it was followed by the four-cylinder Type AD, which carried the company from twin-cylinder to four-cylinder motoring.