In 1922 Eugene Houdry was the fils in Houdry & Fils, Parisian steelmakers. His hobby was auto racing. One day a racing driver excitedly showed him a bottle of gasoline which he said a pharmacist in ...

French mechanical engineer Eugène J. Houdry enjoyed racing cars, but during the early 1920s that was hard to do. At the time, France produced little petroleum or gasoline, and worldwide supplies were ...