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Ghislain Mahy had a number of scouts who kept their eyes peeled for possible new ‘finds’ in the dusty garages and old barns that are such a typical part of the French landscape. One of these scouts was Henri Malartre from Lyon, a renowned buyer and seller of cars in his own right. In many ways he was like Mahy, being a man of often eccentric behaviour and tastes. For example, he wanted nothing to do with German cars, even the more superior models. In spite of this, over the years he built up a fine collection of non-German cars that he displayed on the first floor of his draughty chateau at Rochetaillée- sur-Saône. How did he get them to the first floor? He took them to pieces, carried them up the stairs, and put them back together again! In 1960, he turned his display into a museum, which still exists.

 

At the end of the 1950s, Malartre tracked down this Buchet C2 for Mahy. The Buchet dated from the Roaring Twenties and had to compete with the Bébé designed by Bugatti for Peugeot. The revolutionary and racy C2 ran on Michelin tyres and was one of the first cars with two doors. Until then, the passenger climbed in alongside the driver only after he had cranked the engine into action, which meant that only one door was necessary. The front of the Buchet was made completely from metal. The cockpit was chestnut, largely because there were many chestnut trees in and around Paris, where the Buchet factory was located. A thin metal plate was then carefully hammered over the wood. During the 1920s, it also became the custom for cars to be brightly coloured through the addition of a thick layer of oil paint – hence the turquoise craquelé, which resembles a dancer’s dress as it might have been painted by Degas! Before the First World War, Elie-Victor Buchet had earned a reputation as a daring and innovative engineer. After the war, this fire was gone. Now, he was prepared to live on his past successes, as a result of which he came to be seen as too conservative. Not surprisingly, production and sales began to fall, eventually leading to the closure of the company in 1929.

 

With its copper-carbon headlights and S.A.M. radiator grille from the Avenue Montbarbon, the Buchet was much sought after in the 1950s by French scrap metal dealers. Copper was urgently needed to make weapons for the war in Indo-China and therefore fetched a good price. As a result, only a very few Buchets were saved from the car press. Ghislain Mahy paid Malartre 3,000 Belgian francs for this 1923 model : marginally more than its scrap value.

 

1.551 cc

4 In-line

 

Mahy - a Family of Cars

09/09/2021 - 31/10/2021

 

Vynckier Site

Nieuwevaart 51-53

Gent

Belgium

Techno Classica Essen, 2024

Mercedes-Benz Citaro C2 euro VI de keolis Versailles

This C2 Corvette is something else! What a beauty! This is definitely one of the most impressive classic Corvettes I've seen... and I've seen lots of them!

Citaro C2 2014 de Transdev Senart avec sa livrée régionale (du moins ce qu'il en reste)

Communist party building

Architect: Baldan

Built:2011

 

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US Navy aircraft shot on Kodachrome in the 80's.

 

Lucini Bus Lines Rising Tide Charter Public School

Sandwich, MA

2 2012 Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2s.

The civil engineering of the Shibanxi line is reminiscent of the Ffestiniog Railway, with much use of local stone and several high curved stone embankments.

The weather has much in common with North Wales too, but on a clear day the scenery is beautiful. Here a short scheduled passenger train crosses the most impressive embankment between Jiaoba and Xianrenjaio.

12 March 2011

métro - paris 2013

photocopie aquarellée

A Lufthansa Cargo MD-11F on final for Runway 28C at Chicago's O'Hare International.

First Student 2023 C2 - soon to be applied with either Whitman-Hanson or Abington letters

Whitman, MA

C2 loco with coal empties climbs to the summit and Lixin. March 2004

C2 super yacht, off Santa Margherita Ligure, NW Italy.

 

78.4 metres. Built by Abeking & Rasmussen.

Gezien van achteren.

 

Qbuzz 4001, de eerste van 138 nieuwe stadbussen voor de Domstad.

 

New corporate design of public transport in the Dutch city of Utrecht.

 

Nijkerk, EvoBus - 28 oktober 2013 / October 28, 2013

 

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Un des 2 Mercedes Citaro C2 tout neuf que j'ai vu en attente de livraision (probablement) pour le réseau ValParisis (Lacroix) dans un garage Mercedes-Benz. Photo prise à Herblay. (Val d'Oise, France). 26 avril 2018, 18 h 18.

C2 455 ist während der Tram-Parade am 21.05.2017 zwischen Helmhaus und Bellevue unterwegs.

Butler's Bus Service

Mixed Vermont and New Hampshire spec buses

White River Junction, VT

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