Automobile Carriages – Scientific American – 20 July 1895
This Scientific American article describes the 1895 Paris-Bordeaux race, something like the view through American eyes. Referring to the French magazine „L’Illustration“, it shows that many magazines cooperated with each other already in those days. With permission of hathitrust hathitrust.org == Text and fotos compiled by motorracinghistory motorracinghistory.com Scientific American — Volume LXXIII, No. 3, […]
La Course Paris-Bordeaux-Paris – Histoire de L’Automobile – 1907 (Translation)
The book of Pierre Souvestre, „Histoire de l’Automobile“ covers very extensively the very first years of the automotive industry up until 1906. The section „La vitesse et sa griserie“ deals with the very first automobile race in history: the 1895 Course de Paris-Bordeaux. (Translation). With permission of the Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Text and fotos […]
La Course Paris-Bordeaux-Paris – Histoire de L’Automobile – 1907
The book of Pierre Souvestre, „Histoire de l’Automobile“ covers very extensively the very first years of the automotive industry up until 1906. The section „La vitesse et sa griserie“ deals with the very first automobile race in history: the 1895 Course de Paris-Bordeaux. (Translation separately). Avec l’autorisation du Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Texte et photos […]
Voitures Automobiles, Les Lauréats du Concours du „Petit Journal“, Translation – La Nature – 25 August 1894
In this second of two articles in the scientific magazine La Nature on the 1894 Concours, the journalist E. Hospitalier describes the vehicles that won in one of the difference categories. There were the gasoline-powered Panhard-Levassors, the Peugeots. The gasoline-powered cars of Vacheron (the only with a steering wheel instead of a steering tiller) and […]
Voitures Automobiles, Les Lauréats du Concours du „Petit Journal“ – La Nature – 25 August 1894
In this second of two articles in the scientific magazine La Nature on the 1894 Concours, the journalist E. Hospitalier describes the vehicles that won in one of the difference categories. There were the gasoline-powered Panhard-Levassors, the Peugeots. The gasoline-powered cars of Vacheron (the only with a steering wheel instead of a steering tiller) and […]
Voitures Automobiles, le Concours du „Petit Journal“ – La Nature – 28 July 1894
This article is the first of two in the scientific magazine La Nature on the 1894 Concours, as organized by the parisian magazine Le Petit Journal. The journalist E. Hospitallier describes several aspecst of this first ever concours. They are: organisation, prices to be awarded, schedules of preliminary trials. Then the different propulsion methods of […]
The Competition Organized by the Petit Journal – Scientific American – 6 October 1894
This Scientific American description, published a few months after the 1894 Paris-Rouen Trials, refers to a French article of E. Hospitalier in a July 1895 issue of „La Nature“. It shows a fine summary of some of the most signifcant carriages, of the trial. Text and fotos by courtesy of hathitrust.org, USA hathitrust.org, compiled by […]
La Première Course – Paris-Rouen, 1894 – La Vie au Grand Air – 29 June 1907
This article appeared in the 1907 French Grand Prix theme issue of La Vie au Grand Air. Here, Pierre Giffard (yes indeed, the one and only) the originator and organisor of the first ever course with the horselesses. He describes the 1894 Paris-Rouen; how he’s has got to the idea; how the organisation was and […]
Paris-Bordeaux-Paris – La Vie au Grand Air – 29 June 1907
This article appeared in the French Grand Prix theme issue of La Vie au Grand Air. Here, Mr. Fanor, one of the participants (and a winner) in the 1895 Course Paris-Bordeaux, shares his experience of that very race. From his story, I take it, that he was a realively young co-passenger in one of the […]
Course des Voitures Automobiles – La Nature -1 June 1895
This article is more a summary of many of the participating vehicles, as well of the race itself. It is also one of the first time, that a graphical represeantation of the entire race is given. From this, the speed that all contestants realised during those two, for ssome even three days, becomes accountable. Emille […]