Blériot Aéronautique was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot

Louis Blériot

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft, when he crossed the English Channel. For this achievement, he received a prize of £1,000...

. It also made a few cyclecar

Cyclecar

Cyclecars were small, generally inexpensive cars manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s.-General description:Cyclecars were propelled by single cylinder, V-twin or more rarely four cylinder engines, often air cooled. Sometimes these had been originally used in motorcycles and other...

s from 1921 to 1922.

After Louis Blériot became famous for being the first to fly over the English Channel

English Channel

The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

 in 1909, he established an aircraft manufacturing company. This company really took off during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 and a British factory was established in Addlestone

Addlestone

Addlestone is a town in the borough of Runnymede in the county of Surrey, England.Immediate surrounding towns and villages include Weybridge, Ottershaw, Chertsey, and New Haw. It is near Junction 11 of the M25 motorway and is served by Addlestone railway station on the Chertsey Branch Line. It also...

. The British factory made both Blériot and SPAD

Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés

SPAD was a French aircraft manufacturer between 1911 and 1921. Its SPAD S.XIII biplane was the most popular French fighter airplane in World War I.-Deperdussin:...

 fighter planes during the war. The French factory in Suresnes

Suresnes

Suresnes is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The nearest communes are Neuilly-sur-Seine, Puteaux, Rueil-Malmaison, Saint-Cloud and Boulogne-Billancourt...

 made cyclecars after the war with 2-cylinder

Cylinder (engine)

A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank, or engine block, which is typically cast from aluminum or cast iron before receiving precision machine work...

 2-stroke engines and shaft drive.

Aircraft

• Bleriot III
  Blériot III
  -Bibliography:* Phillipps, Brian A. Bleriot: Herald of an Age. Stroud: Tempus, 2000 ISBN0 75241739 8* Hallion, Richard P. 'Taking Flight. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0 19 516035 5...
  
    (1906)
• Blériot V
  Blériot V
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    (1907) Single-seat, single-engine monoplane of canard configuration.
• Blériot VI
  Blériot VI
  -Bibliography:* Devaux, Jean and Michel Marani. "Les Douze Premiers Aéroplanes de Louis Blériot". Pegase No 54, May 1989.* Elliott, Bryan A. Blériot: Herald of an Age. Stroud: Tempus, 2000. ISBN 0 7524 1739 8...
  
    (1907) Single-seat, single-engine aircraft of tandem-wing configuration.
• Bleriot VII
  Blériot VII
  |-References:* Devaux, Jean and Michel Marani. "Les Douze Premiers Aéroplanes de Louis Blériot". Pegase No 54, May 1989.* * * -See also:...
  
    (1907)
• Bleriot VIII
  Blériot VIII
  |-References:* Devaux, Jean and Michel Marani. "Les Douze Premiers Aéroplanes de Louis Blériot". Pegase No 54, May 1989.* * -See also:...
  
    (1908)
• Blériot XI
  Blériot XI
  The Blériot XI is the aircraft in which, on 25 July 1909, Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel made in a heavier-than-air aircraft . This achievement is one of the most famous accomplishments of the early years of aviation, and not only won Blériot a lasting place in...
  
    (1909) Single-seat, single-engine monoplane of conventional configuration.
• Blériot XII
  Blériot XII
  -References:* Taylor M.J.H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation London: Studio Editions, 1989 p.161* Devaux, Jean and Michel Marani. "Les Douze Premiers Aéroplanes de Louis Blériot". Pegase No 54, May 1989....
  
    (1909) Single-seat, single-engine high-wing monoplane.
• Blériot 110  (1930) Single-seat, single-engine high-wing long-distance monoplane.
• Bleriot 115
  Blériot 115
  -References:*...
  
  
• Bleriot 123
• Bleriot 125
  Blériot 125
  -External Links:* * Popular Mechanics, August 1933* Flight 12 Dec 1930...
  
  
• Bleriot 127
  Blériot 127
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• Bleriot 135
  Blériot 135
  -References:* Barfoot, John. "R.E.8 Pilot: Lieutenant William Lefevre Oxley Parker13 Squadron, RFC." The '14-'18 Journal 2006. Sydney: The Australian Society of World War 1 Aero Historians, 14.*...
  
  
• Bleriot 155
  Blériot 155
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• Bleriot 165
  Blériot 165
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• Blériot 5190
  Blériot 5190
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  (1933) - Four-engine, transatlantic parasol-wing monoplane flying boat.

Sources

Georgano, Nick (Ed.) (2000). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1-57958-293-1.