This is the story that a 'chance' meeting between Lucien Faure, a director of the Gregoire firm with the very famous
Louis Bleriot inspired this design through the use of what was called a wind tunnel - a technique still in use today - to investigate "the phenomenon of cavitation behind cars with perpendicular rear ends", and in 1911 he applied this to the design of car bodies, and Bleriot allowed his name to be added to the design of the streamlined "Torpille" (torpedo) saloon body. The marketing advantages for both are obvious..
