Image courtesy Jean-Louis Dumont
N. Brondoit & Cie, rue du Chou, Herstal.
Manufactured by Bayard-Brondoit (aka Brondoit Herstal) 1895-1929 in Herstal and Leige.
Nicolas Brondoit built 97cc two-stroke bicycle attachment engines before and after WWI named Ideal-Brondoit, and in 1922 produced the Brondoit motorcycle. It won the 250 class of the 1925 Bol d'Or.
Paul Le Bussy joined the company, and in 1926 350cc and 500cc MAG models appeared.
Le Bussy had entered in the Coupe de la Meuse, which was a regularity trial starting on the 7th of April 1929.
During a pre-event practice session on the 4th of April near the Sauveniere, Le Bussy's engine seized, causing him to fall. He was taken to hospital in Spa but died the next day.
After his death, his brother George briefly took over Brondoit before selling the company to Olivier Joly, with production ending shortly afterwards.
Le Salon Belge
Brondoit deals with a popular two-stroke of remarkably successful simplicity which has to his credit a resounding victory and a category record at the French Bol d'Or and is, moreover, the machine of smaller displacement having completed Liége-Bordeaux-Liége (2,000 kilometers in one step) on time. Also makes a three-speed version of the same machine, and a 350cc super sport, ingeniously designed.
Le Salon Belge, Moto Revue December 24th 1927
Sources: François-Marie Dumas; Wikipedia NL; Graham Clayton; period advertising.
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