Renault Album

Out of the many dozens of car makers in France, and the many hundreds in Europe, in the early years of the 20th century, who could have predicted that a century later Renault would be one of the few survivors? Louis Renault was an unconventional and controversial figure. He was a semi-literate and tongue-tied mechanic who was vilified by the French left-wing press between the wars for exploiting the workers to build his personal fortune, yet he was admired by many others for founding an industrial empire which had contributed vast amounts of munitions to the Allied war effort in the Great War. This booklet gives a brief overview of Renault's colourful history.