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 Post subject: Did you know ?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:08 pm 
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According to Doug Nye, Tom Wheatcroft's "greatest disappointment was losing the Schlumpf Collection to the French Government after agreeing in principle with the Schlumpf brothers"


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 Post subject: Re: Did you know ?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:14 pm 
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That is truly interesting. Imagine what this guy must have paid it it was to happen.

Also, it shows the Schlumpf Brothers were in serious trouble, and they were presumably willing to make a huge offer to save their factory. The human side of the Schlumpfs...

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:21 pm 
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This is sensational. Arnoud and me are writing a book about the Schlumpf collection and the Schlumpf affair. This would settle once and for aqll all the political left gossip, that has been written untill now. Were could we find the proves of this.


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 Post subject: Re: Did you know ?
PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:09 am 
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Source of my information Motor Sport magazine January 2010, page 40.

If you want more try contacting Doug Nye via editorial@motorsportmagazine.co.uk

or contact Kevin Wheatcroft via the Donington Collection website.

Another interesting snippet is how Wheatcroft used a Sherman tank to rob a bank in Lubeck and used the proceeds to set himself up in business.


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 Post subject: Re: Did you know ?
PostPosted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:18 am 
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Thanks,
I wiil keep you informed. This story will please the French justice, the trade union and the french authorities


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 Post subject: Re: Did you know ?
PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:18 pm 
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Does anyone have a scan of that article from january. Please mail it to ard@opdeweegh,eu


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