Ma Course de Paris-Bordeaux – la Vie au Grand Air – 5 June 1903
Text et photograhies avec l’autorisation du Bibliothèque national francais, gallica.bnf.fr, www.gallica.bnf.fr, compilé par motorracinghistory.com La Vie au Grand Air, 6e Année, No. 247, 6 juin 1903 ENTRE NOUS – Le Concours de Paris-Madrid Par suite de l’interdiction de la course Paris-Madrid, dont la première étape seule a pu être effectuée, nous ne pouvons faire […]
The Premier Woman Motorist – Motor Age – 8 September 1904
Text and jpegs by courtesy of hathitrust.org www.hathitrust.org, compiled by motorracinghistory.com Motor Age, Vol. VI, No. 10, September 8, 1904 THE PREMIER WOMAN MOTORIST AMERICA ranks well with the countries of Europe in the possession of expert automobile racing men; it does not possess the prominent women drivers such as France may claim in […]
Geschichte des Pneumatiks – Moderne illustrierte Zeitung – 1 August 1913
This is a technically interesting article in an Austrian magazine from 1913 on how Mr. Michelin came to his idea of a „pneumatic tire“. He used these in the 1895 Paris-Bordeaux race and he introduced later the demountable tire rims. The article further stresses out the extent of industrial backgound on tire production. Text and […]
Les Premiers Pneus – La Vie au Grand Air – 29 June 1907
This article was published in 1907, in a theme issue of La Vie au Grand Air, just before the seond French Grand Prix in that same year. This was one of the points, remembering the first application of pneumatic tires on the 1895 Paris-Bordeaux trial. It gives more insight information of that premeire by the […]