Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Charles Edouard Henriod

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Swiss automobile pioneer. He held numerous patents.

See Henriod.

1909 C. E. Henriod took out a US patent for vehicle transmissions characterised by the use of interengaging toothed wheels or frictionally-engaging wheels of changeable ratio with planetary gears [1]

1912 Darraq-Henriod rotary valve engine. "In 1912 the firm succumbed to the vogue for abolition of the poppet valve with a near disastrous range of rotary valved cars under Henriod patents."[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Transmission gearing patent
  2. [2] Douglas Self's website: Rotary-Valve Internal Combustion Engines