1187
A 16-valve type 23 with engine number 750 which is recorded in factory records as having been delivered to a customer named Renard in St. Dié on 14th September 1921. Steinhauser's 2008 book on Ettore Bugatti refers to a "Carbu. Zénith triple diffuseur". This is taken to relate to the car's original fitment. The car's subsequent history is unknown and some experts believe it has been scrapped. However, in Spring 1973 (“Bugantics” Vol. 36 No.1 p.63) Conway’s International Register recorded a type 13 with chassis 1187 and engine 456 with the note that it was now owned by Uwe Hücke of Nettelstedt, Germany. Despite being a prolific author, this gentleman has been associated with various Bugattis of dubious provenance. Bob King's 2006 register of surviving 16-valve cars "The Brescia Bugatti" makes no mention of car 1187, however, on page 332, reference is made to a type 13 "Brescia Course" with engine 456 with its crankcase stamped 1187. According to Kng this engine came from car 2044.The car is recorded on Bugatti Register.com as 1187 with the note that after Hücke's death it was owned by the proprietor of Ventoux Moteurs in Carpentras; Laurent Rondoni who used it at the Frestival Bugatti in Molsheim in September 2002. It later passed to Christophe de Boutiny who used it with Georges Gianti for the 1st Rencontres Internationales Bugatti en Corse in June 2007. More rrecently it has appeared at the Avignon Motor Festival and at Le Grand Prix de l'Age d'Or in 2009 carrying the French registration 5185 YF 06. It is a very tastefully built car remarkable for its all-over black finish and a large single front headlamp. Despite having large question marks hanging over it this is neverless a very desirable car.

37372
A type 37A with engine no 278CP. The car's crankcases and chassis plate were initially stamped 37332 in error before being overstamped correctly as 37372. It was.supplied with a factory invoice dated April, 1929 to Sorel’s London agency. The car was road-registered as APG 260 on 23rd May 1933. Its first recorded owner was one P. Williams, followed by dealer Arthur Baron and then another dealer; Jack Lemon Burton whose sales ledger records it as sold to Blackwell of Oxshott, Surrey in January, 1937. It later passed through the hands of R.E. (Bobby) Pattenden, then C.W.P. (Peter) Hampton, and H.N. Edwards before being acquired by Campbell. In 1954 it was listed (incorrectly) on page 60 of “The Bugatti Book” in his ownership as 37332 with the note that it had a dynamo driven by skew gears and a special casting acting as gearbox lid, clutch cover and starter-motor housing. In the Autumn 1956 of "Bugantics" the car was being offered for sale and was described as being well preserved, with a new crankshaft, entirely standard and fitted with an efficient starter and easily-removed road equipment. Owner A. Campbell of 11, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford was asking for offers around £300. However, in June 1956 the car had been acquired by A.W. (Tony) Rippon (then employed as a solicitor's articled clerk) for £200 which was borrowed from his reluctant father. In 1962 it was listed on page 26 of The Bugatti Register and Data Book" with Rippon's address given as 137, Lutterworth Road, Nuneaton. Its colour was gien as "dark blue". 1963 it passed into the hands of G.C. Plaister and in 1983 was acquired by G. R.W.(George) Wickham. The car’s lubrication system was discussed in an article by Townsend and Steele on the “T37/40 Oil Pump” published in Spring, 1990. In 2000 it was listed on page 82 in the British Register and Data Book, still owned by Wickham. A note indicates that the car has an extended cambox to take two magnetos and that its "Fctory Date was 24th April 1929. A photograph shows a standard car with headlights but no other road equipment.