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Author:  marklukes [ Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Color of bugatti type 41 Napoleon
What color the sides of the Bugatti T41 Coupe Napoleon - black or blue?
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Author:  Udolahr [ Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Color of bugatti type 41 Napoleon
it looks black to me
Author:  Uwe [ Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Color of bugatti type 41 Napoleon
It looks like black/blue

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Le Magasin du 46, avenue Montaigne en 1934
Author:  creweman [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Color of bugatti type 41 Napoleon
Good evening.
It's some time since I've visited this site, so my apologies for a rather late entry to this topic.
In the early 1960s I was given a large framed photographic print of this car, hand tinted in colour - very well done too. It clearly shows a two-tone colour scheme for the car, black and blue, as in the 6/7/2008 photo. in one of your replies. The blue, however, looks a little more subdued (possibly darker) than in that photo.
The print I have is a fairly well known one since I've seen it published several times over the years. It is a right hand broadside view with the chaffeur, in cap and long coat standing in front of the car, facing the camera. The setting appears to be in a park or boulevard.
There is no date anywhere but the car has the T-shaped door handles seen in the 1934 photo, rather than the oval ones seen in the other two.
I have no idea when the print I have was actually tinted, so 'as evidence' it can only be circumstantial. There is a name - 'W F Sedgwick' on the mounting, but I've no idea who he was or how he relates to my print.
I hope this is of interest.
Cheers, John.
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