La Course automobile de Paris-Berlin – La Vie Illustrée – 28 June 1901
The French magazine La Vie Illustrée mostly covered interesting and important events. So was an event with cars and their corresponding speeds, in those days important ehough to be published. Here, kind of introduction is given on one of the City-to-City races: the Paris-Berlin race. It consisted of two classes: „Touristes“ and „Vitesse“. The latter […]
La Course automobile de Paris-Berlin, Transation – La Vie Illustrée – 28 June 1901
The French magazine La Vie Illustrée mostly covered interesting and important events. So was an event with cars and their corresponding speeds, in those days important ehough to be published. Here, kind of introduction is given on one of the City-to-City races: the Paris-Berlin race. It consisted of two classes: „Touristes“ and „Vitesse“. The latter […]
Die Fernfahrt Paris-Wien, Translation – Automobil-Zeitung – 26 June 1902
Part of the 1902 Paris-Vienna Race ran through Austria. Here’s the Austrian magazine „Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung“ with several issues, dedicating to that very race. In this first of some more articles, not only the results, but also the second placed Count Zborowski in a Mercedes. Text and jpegs by courtesy of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek – Austrian National […]
The Paris-Vienna Race – The Autombile (and Motor Review) – 26 July 1902
The 1902 Paris-Vienna Race as reported by the magazine „The Automobile and Motor Review“. It bore this name until the beginning of 1903; since then it was named „The Automobile“. This report once more shows that in those days, much more was written on an event than was shown pictorial. So, a large read, indeed. […]
Pen Pictures of the Paris-Madrid – The Automobile – 13 June 1903
This 1903 Paris-Madrid report of The Automobile, titled „Pen Pictures of the Paris-Madrid“ talks about a „helter-skelter flight“, which thus really was. Expressions like „Laxity of Policing“, „Criminal Carelessness“ and „Precautions not observed“ say it all, with a relveiving „Injured improving“ in the final part of the report. It covers many aspects of this catastophical […]
Paris-Madrid, Translation – La Locomotion – 30 May 1903
The 1903 Paris – Madrid race, described and commented in this article, cost the lives of many spectators, drivers and mecahnics. And thus, it formed the end of the City-to-City era. „la fête finit ainsi“ = „the party thus ended“ was written. The most well-known driver who came to death was Marcel Renault. With authorisation […]
L’industria italiana e il Grand Prix dell’AC di Francia – La Stampa Sportiva – 7 August 19213
This 1921 report *** Text and photos with courtesy of Museo dell’Automobile di Torino https://www.byterfly.eu/ compiled by motorracingistory.com LA STAMPA SPORTIVA, Anno XX. – Torino – 7 Agosto 1921 – N. 32 L’industria italiana e il Grand Prix dell’A. C. di Francia Il Grand Prix di Francia non ha veduto quest’anno al traguardo di […]
La Course Paris-Berlin – L’Illustration – 6 July 1901
The magazine L’Illustration brought reports of very different events all over the world. This Paris-Berlin account was written by Abeniacar. Henri and Charles Abeniacar were two Italian brothers who worked for and cooperated with the L’Illustration magazine. This report not only summarizes the race, its progress and results, as well as some organisational procedures. Texte […]
Die Fernfahrt Paris-Wien – Automobil-Zeitung – 26 June 1902
Part of the 1902 Paris-Vienna Race ran through Austria. Here’s the Austrian magazine „Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung“ with several issues, dedicating to that very race. In this first of some more articles, not only the results, but also the second placed Count Zborowski in a Mercedes. Text and jpegs by courtesy of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek – Austrian National […]
En Route pour Madrid – L’Illustration- 23 May 1903
In this issue of the magazine „L’Illustration“, the most striking cars that participate in the Paris-Madrid race are presented. The main charactreristic of this magazine is the use of photographs, accompanied by some limited text. Here, the only foreigner is the German Mercedes, although more foreign cars have particpated in the race. Avec l’autorisation du […]