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Fernand Renault (28 November 1864, Paris – 22 March 1909, Paris) was one of the brothers that founded Renault, the French automobile manufacturer, in 1899.
Fernand Renault né le 28 novembre 1864 dans le 1 er arrondissement de Paris [1] et mort le 22 mars 1909 dans le 8 e arrondissement de Paris [2] est un industriel français, qui fonda, avec ses frères Louis et Marcel, la société Renault Frères le 25 février 1899.
Creation of the Renault Frères company. Marcel and Fernand Renault, brothers’ of Louis, create the company Renault Frères. Louis remains an employee of the company, to devote himself to design. The Voiturette won its first car competitions, which earned Renault 71 orders in the year.
To help him get started, his two older brothers, Marcel and Fernand, founded the company Renault Frères in Boulogne, with Louis as a simple employee. In less than a year, 70 of the little cars or “voiturettes” had been produced and sixty people were working alongside Louis Renault.
Louis Renault (French: [lwi ʁəno]; 12 February 1877 – 24 October 1944) was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry. Renault built one of France's largest automobile manufacturing concerns, which still bears his name.
Marcel Renault (14 May 1872 – 26 May 1903) was a French racing driver and industrialist, co-founder of the carmaker Renault. He was the brother of Louis and Fernand Renault . Marcel Renault, Louis Renault, and Fernand Renault co-founded Renault Frères based on a automobile prototype built by Louis.
The Renault company was founded in 1899 as Société Renault Frères by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand. James Laux (“In the first gear”, 1876) wrote: “Of the many French automobile makers who began operations in 1898, one who started on the smallest scale was running the industry’s largest firm a decade later.
