Arzens is the name associated with Paul Arzens, born in 1903 in Paris, an artist and designer who trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and earned his living selling paintings during the 1920s before turning his attention to mechanical design. In 1935 he patented an automatic gearbox, tested in an old six-cylinder Chrysler, which was tried personally by Robert Peugeot but not adopted since Peugeot had already contracted…
