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| Author: | VDP [ Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Baron André d'Erlanger |
I think he was the owner of a Bugatti T 35 C entered for Eyston Can somebody confirm me this ? Robert |
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| Author: | Legaleagle [ Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | d'Erlanger |
Was André related to Leo ?? ERLANGER, Leo d’. An international banker who was the suitor of Ettore’s daughter Ebé. It is said that he was discouraged by Ettore for being Jewish. His first Bugatti was a genuine twin-magneto racing type 13 fitted with a bolster tank and with an October 1922 registration XM 936 (possibly chassis 1501). Three years late he became the first owner of a type 23 with the chassis no 2601 and engine no. 1108 which was supplied with a factory invoice dated 16th, October, 1925. It was fitted with a saloon body and taken to Tunisia. (The car ended up in 1966 on David Sewells door-step as a pile of bits with no coachwork. It is now thought to be in mid-Wales in the ownerhsip of J. White). He purchased the 1926 ex-works type 35TC (4848 with engine 120T) in 1927. This car is mainly remembered for its ownership in the UK by Peter Stubberfield in monoposto form. The car passed to Frank Wall and then Fuad Majzub but is thought to be no longer in the UK. He also owned, from new, a 1927 type 43 (43159) which is best remembered for its ownerhip, for around fifty years, by T.A. Roberts. |
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| Author: | Hunter [ Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Eyston |
EYSTON, Captain / Sir George. A professional driver, perhaps best known for his record breaking successes, who drove Bugattis in the twenties and thirties at various events. His first recorded win was in 1926 Boulogne Grand Prix in a type 39 (4605 - a car which had probably won at Monza the previous year - the name “Costantini” was found pencilled on the back of the seat squabs). The car had previously only been able to lap Brooklands at 101.64 mph but after attention by Papworth and Gale ran considerably better. After new cylinder blocks had been fited he took five international class records with it. An excellent picture showing Eyston leading the Delage of Benoist in the 1927 British Grand Prix appears in Venable’s 2007 book “Brooklands” (p.104). His wins included the Gold Vase Handicap at Brooklands on the 8th June 1928 in a 35B. (According to “The Bugatti Book” (p. 46) he owned the ex-Bret type 35C (4855) and used it to establish the European flying kilometre record). In 1933 he was co-driver to owner Kaye Don driving the daunting type 54 at the fast banked track at Montlehèry, France. They gained I hour and 200 kms. records at speeds of 194.74 and 196.917 kms respectively. In the mid-thirties he ran a team of six MGs driven by his “dancing daughters” who included Joan Richmond and the lady who was to become Eva Conway, Hugh’s wife. His last drive in a Bugatti was probably at Prescott in September 1961 when he gave a demonstration run in John Horton’s type 35 but, with his wife, he attended the 1969 International Bugatti Rally held in the UK as guest of the UK BOC. At this time he lived in the USA. |
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