Few things I remember from the talk last night that may interest you:

1. More description on the crash that killed Pierre de Vizcaya. No dog was mentioned, but it was a daft accident where he was a passenger in an Alfa and the vehicle arrived at a junction in Paris at the same time as a taxi. There followed a bit of "after you", "no after you", "no after...." which resulted in confusion and a crash whereby Pierre fell from the Alfa that was travelling at a very low speed and hit his head on the edge of the pavement. This killed him.

2. A question was asked about Bugatti financial records (by Barrie Price...see he is OK Johan!!). Well most appear to have been destroyed c1991. What is known (remember to put this in to the context of phones being novel and no Internet) is that EB was always cashflow poor. He had a number of accounts across Europe and developed a strategy of grooming bankers in two distinct and geographically distant areas of Europe to ensure he had access to funds. However, it appears he just kept digging a bigger financial hole for himself. By all accounts he was lucky to survive financially. NS told a great story about the cylinder blocks (as an example) being produced by a number of different manufacturers for no other reason than when EB was "on stop" with on, he could get supplies from another. It was mentioned that if he was running a business now, his practices (especially of mixing his firms money with his own) would have landed him in prison.

3. NS's approach to research was very thorough and he talked seeking out records offices all over the place and sources such as Borgeson and Conway to cross reference all his work.