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 […]
Paris-Vienne I, Paris à Belfort – 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 […]
Après Paris-Vienne, Translation – La Vie au Grand Air – 19 July 1902
This last report by Georges Prade of La Vie au Grand Air on the 1902 Paris-Vienna race is this magazine’s summary. First, the so-called compartive race between rail-and-car is dicsussed. Most important feature of this Paris-Vienna race hiowever, is the fact that out of 137 cars, 80 could finish in Vienna; this was considered to […]
Après Paris-Vienne – La Vie au Grand Air – 19 July 1902
This last report of La Vie au Grand Air on the 1902 Paris-Vienna race is this magazine’s summary. First, the so-called compartive race between rail-and-car is dicsussed. Most important feature of this Paris-Vienna race hiowever, is the fact that out of 137 cars, 80 could finish in Vienna; this was considered to be a significant […]
Paris-Vienne II-3 – La Vie au Grand Air – 3 July 1902
The 3rd July 1902 issue of La Vie au Grand Air contains several horizontal oriented photos, thereby covering one whole page. For reasons of a better presentation on this website, the “horizontallys” are shown here separately, although these belong to the same issue of the two previous articles. Here also is shown a two-page picture, […]
Paris-Vienne II-1 – La Vie au Grand Air – 3 July 1902
La Vie au Grand Air was known for their picture-rich articles on motor racing events. The 3rd July 1902 issue is almost completely adressed to the 1902 Paris – Vienna Race, enriched by many fotos. In this first part, the first five pages-with-fotos are shown, as well as the article main text. (Translation included). Text […]
Paris-Vienne II-2 – La Vie au Grand Air – 3 July 1902
La Vie au Grand Air was known for their picture-rich articles on motor racing events. The 3rd July 1902 issue is almost completely adressed to the 1902 Paris – Vienna Race, enriched by many fotos. In this second part, the last five pages-with-fotos are shown. (Translation included). Text et photographies avec l’autorisation de Bibliotheque national […]