Eugène Brillié

[1] He joined with Gustave Gobron to create the Société des Moteurs Gobron-Brillié and to develop an opposed-piston engine he had invented.

It participated in the Paris–Madrid race of 1903, and set speed records, including that of being the first car to exceed 160 km/h (100 mph).

He created the automobile company Eugène Brillié and had cars of his design built by the workshops of Schneider & Cie at Le Havre (former Forge Artillery Workshops and Chantiers de la Méditerranée, bought by Schneider in 1897).

[4] In Belgium, Leon and Maurice Nagant of Liège made some Gobron-Brillie products under licence.

During the First World War, a meeting between Colonel Estienne and Brillié led to the development of a tank project in December 1915.

Eugène Brillié on the Circuit du Nord in 1902
Brillié advertisement of 1907
Schneider Brillié omnibus in Paris between 1907 and 1911
The opposed-piston engine used in Gobron-Brillié cars
Schneider CA1 the tank designed by Brillié