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 […]
The Paris-Bordeaux-Paris Race – Scientific American – 10 August 1895
This Scientific American description, published a few months after the Paris-Bordeaux Trials, refers to the French article in „La Nature“. It shows not only a fine summary of some of the most signifcant carriages, as well as the graphical representation of the complete two-days race. Text and fotos by courtesy of hathitrust.org, USA hathitrust.org, compiled […]