Author: Wolfgang Drehsen Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited ISBN: 9780887401923 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : de Pages : 182
Book Description
This book shares the valuable collection of the Schlumpf brothers, whose collection of 427 beautiful classic cars--including 122 Bugatis--made it Europe's most exciting auto collection. Now known as the National Auto Museum of France, this amazing collection is presented in this book for all the world to see.
Author: Ard op de Weegh Publisher: Veloce Publishing ISBN: 9781787113091 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This fabulous collection of cars was brought together by two French brothers, Hans & Fritz Schlumpf, and consists of hundreds of the most beautiful cars ever produced. The ‘Schlumpf affair’ is perhaps one of the most famous stories in the car collectors world, covered extensively by the media in the mid-1970s, when the collection was seized by the trade unions and later by the French government. The Schlumpf brothers were accused of fraudulent actions to obtain their collection -- but following extensive research by the authors of this book, the true story behind the collection is revealed. Ard and Arnoud op Weegh spent many years investigating the Schlumpf affair, and discovered many previously unpublished documents which prove that the Schlumpf brothers have been wrongly accused over the years. This book is written to tell the true story behind the collection, and also to rehabilitate the Schlumpf family name. The book is beautifully illustrated with some rare photographs, and features many of the beautiful cars that make up the Schlumpf collection.
Author: Richard Adatto Publisher: ISBN: 9780977980987 Category : Bugatti automobile Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
Written by noted French car expert Richard Adatto, Bugatti historian Julius Kruta and furniture authority Christina Japp, The Art of Bugatti brings the heritage of this famous family of artists and innovators to life. With rarely seen historical photographs and documents, each car is presented anew in studio photography by renowned automotive ......
Author: Keith Martin Publisher: Motorbooks International ISBN: 0760353603 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
Collects true stories about eccentric car collectors, including a take of an English nobleman who buries his horde of Ferraris in an insurance scam and a woman who loved her car so much she wished to be buried in it.
Author: Philippe Grummer Publisher: ISBN: 9781854432902 Category : Automobiles Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The years between the two World Wars was an extraordinary period for the French luxury car trade and during this time, Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer was one of the leading coach building houses in Paris.Descended from a long line of coach builders, Gaston Grümmer was the son of Antoine-Joseph whose company, J. Grümmer formerly V. Morel, produced first, from 1845, exceptional horse-drawn carriages and from the 1890s automotive bodies. Trained in the family business before World War I, Gaston Grümmer, spent the war as a soldier, first on horseback and in the trenches and then in the air as a pilot. At the end of hostilities, he brilliantly re-launched the family business transforming it into the Société Anonyme des Etablissements Grümmer. As the company moved towards the production of series bodywork for various manufacturers, Gaston decided that he wanted to break away to build custom cars and in 1924 he created his own company under the name of Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer. For the next ten years he achieved great success on both aesthetic and technical levels.Thanks to recently discovered and previously unpublished archives, his son, Philippe Grümmer, in association with one of the best French automotive historians, Laurent Friry, takes us back to this glorious period during the "Roaring Twenties" recalling the major events of the Concours d'Elégance and Les Salons de l'Auto, and describes the bodies that Gaston Grümmer produced for the chassis of around 54 manufacturers and the hundred or so prizes which he won.Illustrated with photographs, press articles and period documents, including the reproduction of a series of design drawings, this reference book on bodywork of the time is a must for any student of the period.
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