Word: bugatti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble into the tonneau, crying, "En route Henri! Nous sommes pour Biarritz...
Popular among sporting Europeans is the Bugatti, a smart, small, high-powered automobile capable of 90 miles per hour without threatening to disintegrate or fly off the road. Ettore Bugatti, an Italian, manufactures this swift vehicle in Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes...
...windshield, with no extra cost; new braking system built by Timken; free "indemnity against loss of use resulting from theft." Fred E. Moskovicz, active, able president of Stutz Motor Car Co., returned from Europe last week. His weightiest statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest automobile engineer in Europe," will produce a car twice as big as the Packard Eight. Its wheelbase will be 176 in., its speed 120 miles an hour. The Weyman Body Co. of London and Paris will build a factory at Indianapolis, Ind. Last week at least one newspaper...