page_title: Adolphe Clément-Bayard
section_title: 1904 season
hierarchical_section_title: Adolphe Clément-Bayard / Motor racing / 1904 season
caption_attribution_description: English: Albert Clement in a Clement-Bayard_at_the_1905_Vanderbilt_Cup an 80-hp Clement-Bayard (France #12) was driven by Albert Clement. Watermarked, low resolution image is publicly available COURTESY OF THE HELCK FAMILY COLLECTION, the original copyright holder at Vanderbilt Cup Races, Westbury, Clement-Bayard The image is now assumed to be public domain because it is over 100 years old.
context_page_description: Gustave Adolphe Clément, from 1909 Clément-Bayard, was a French entrepreneur. An orphan who became a blacksmith and a Compagnon du Tour de France, he went on to race and manufacture bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships.
  In 1894 he was a passenger in the winning vehicle in the world's first competitive motor event. Albert Lemaître's Peugeot was judged to be the winner of the Paris–Rouen Competition for Horeseless Carriages.
  As a result of selling the manufacturing rights to his Clément car he added Bayard to the name of his new business. The company name honoured the Chevalier Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard who saved the company's town of Mézières from an Imperial army during the Siege of Mézières in 1521.
  In 1909, five years after the successful launch of the Clément-Bayard automobile brand, he applied for and obtained the consent of the Conseil d'Etat to change his name and those of his descendants to Clément-Bayard. Clément-Bayard was appointed a Commander of the Légion d'honneur in 1912.
context_section_description: Albert Clément finished 10th at L' Eliminatoires Françaises de la Coupe Internationale, held at the Forest of Argonne on 20 May 1904. This was an eliminating contest for the French entry into the Coupe Internationale (Gordon Bennett Race) where only three cars were allowed per country. Clement finished in 7 hours 10 minutes 52.8 seconds.
  Albert Clément won the II Circuit des Ardennes des Voiturettes on 24 July 1904 at Bastogne in 4h 26m 52.6seconds at an average speed of 53.91 km/h.
  Clément drove his Clément-Bayard into third place at the III Circuit des Ardennes race at Bastogne, on 25 July 1904.
  Clément finished second at the 1904 I.W.K. Vanderbilt Cup Race on Long Island on 8 October 1904.
caption: Albert Clément drives an 80-hp Clément-Bayard at the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup
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