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Friend in Beijing says this is Chinese, but for Malaysian market. A collector in Australia sent me this, so I suspect these were printed there and some never left. Other than text, the brochure is identical to the home market version.
Another advert from The Nuffield Organization stressing the importance of exports in the immediate post-war period, this also from The Geographical Magazine, May 1948.
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Operator: Mantiuk06.
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Bugatti - creator of some of the world's most magnificent cars: The Type 35 GP Racer, the majestic Type 41 Royale limousines, the Type 57 SC Atlantic - possibly the most valuable car in the world. Reincarnated by Volkswagen to create the world's most amazing supercar, the Veyron.
And yet, like so many other great names, Bugatti had its share of trouble. WWII saw its founder co-opted by the Nazis to keep his factories producing machinery (though he hid some of his most valuable cars in tunnels), imprisoned by the French government after the war, and the untimely deaths.
The late 1940s was certainly not a great time to rebuild a luxury French marque in years of austerity. But Bugatti tried. The first major project was the Type-101, a series of chassis developed from the pre-war Type-57, including its 3.3 litre straight eight. Only a small number of chassis were built, mostly bodied uncomfortably over a 15-year old architecture.
France saw a taxation regime based on engine capacity, and the Bugatti marked its owners as wealthy and subjected them to heavy taxes. Export markets were limited, as the American luxury arena had plenty of competitors not so drastically affected by the war.
Bugatti's return to competition was somewhat disastrous also, a 1956 trial entry into Grand Prix racing with the Type-251, a 2.5 litre, transversely mounted straight eight, proved fragile and unwieldy.
All of this set the stage for a much more modest project, the Type-252 shown here. The car had a four-cylinder engine of 1.5 litres, mounted to a pretty little roadster body. A single prototype was built in 1957, with the intent to build a series of vehicles of similar form. Alfa Romeo was about to succeed with a similar vision, but by this time the Bugatti factory was out of money and out of business.
This single model now resides in the Cité de l’Automobile museum in Mulhouse, France.
This Lego Miniland-scale Bugatti Type-252 Roadster (1957) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 115th build challenge, - "The French Connection", - for vehicles with a connection to France.
Not some secret stash of McEwan's Export just an old trailer in a farmer's field. The other side in a much more dilapidated state.