Labourdette was a French coachbuilding house founded in Paris, tracing back to Jean-Baptiste Labourdette, who began building horse-drawn carriages in 1858. His grandson Henri Labourdette expanded the firm into automobile bodywork, and in 1912 introduced its defining design, the Skiff, on a Panhard et Levassor chassis commissioned by the racing driver and Panhard et Levassor director René de Knyff. The Skiff took its name and construction from a rowing boat:…
