The Gladiator Cycle Company, Clément-Gladiator (from 1896), was a French manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles and cars based in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine.
Throughout its productive life from 1891 until its demise in 1920 the company was variously owned by the founders Alexandre Darracq and Paul Aucoq; from 1896 by Adolphe Clément, Lord Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, and fraudster Harry John Lawson; from 1906 by 'Vinot et Deguingand'.
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