Après la Course, Translation – La Locomotion Automobile – No. 7, July 1895
In four separate and small articles, the complete route of the world’s first auto race was published in La Locomotion Automobile. The four separate sections are meticously described, whitnessing thereby how carefully the preparations were made by the organisers. (Translation of original text). With courtesy of the Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr and the Conservatoire numérique des […]
Itinéraire Officiel de la Course, Translation – La Locomotion Automobile – February-May 1895
In four separate and small articles, the complete route of the world’s first auto race was published in La Locomotion Automobile. The four separate sections are meticously described, whitnessing thereby how carefully the preparations were made by the organisers. (Translation of original Text). With courtesy of the Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr and the Conservatoire numérique des […]
Après la Course – La Locomotion Automobile – No. 7, July 1895
In four separate and small articles, the complete route of the world’s first auto race was published in La Locomotion Automobile. The four separate sections are meticously described, whitnessing thereby how carefully the preparations were made by the organisers. (Translation separately). Avec l’autorisation du Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Texte et photos compilé par motorracinghistory motorracinghistory.comLa […]
Itinéraire Officiel de la Course – La Locomotion Automobile – February-May 1895
In four separate and small articles, the complete route of the world’s first auto race was published in La Locomotion Automobile. The four separate sections are meticously described, whitnessing thereby how carefully the preparations were made by the organisers. (Translation separately). Avec l’autorisation du Bibliothèque national francais gallica.bnf.fr Avec l’autorisation du Conservatoire numérique des Arts et […]
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 […]
The Paris-Vienna Race – Automobile Review – 1 July + August 1902
These two articles of the magazine The Automobile Review and Automobile News here are cropped in one. It shows a very clear and neat reporting of both the 1902 Paris-Vienna Race and the accompanying 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup race. The latter still was at that time much less popular than the original city-to-city races. From […]
An Account of the Paris-Vienna Race – Automobile Review – 15 September 1902
This basically two-part article of Charles Osborn gives an account on the 1902 Paris-Vienna race. It is a short, comprised but yet complete summary of that 1902 city-to-city race. In the second part of this article, a more extensive description of the winning light.weight Renault car is given, as well as of some of the […]
Paris-Vienne I, Paris à Belfort, Translation – La Vie au Grand Air – 1 July 1902
In the very early hours of 26th of June 1902, many thousand spectators gathered in Paris and Champigny to whitness the start of the 1902 Paris-Vienna Race, that was to last until 29th June. This issue of La Vie au Grand Air mentioned that even ten thousand spectators were on the road that night. Must […]