Panhard et Levassor
Rene Panhard was an engineer whose business, based in Paris, made woodworking tools. In 1887 he, along with Emile Levassor and Belgian lawyer Edouard Sarazin established Panhard et Levassor for the manufacture of motor cars.
The lawyer Edouard Sarazin, was Gottlieb Daimler’s “distribution partner” and his job was to protect Daimler patents abroad, above all in France which was a leader in early motoring..
