Word: bugatti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later France's President Albert Francois Lebrun zipped out of Paris in a special Bugatti Automotrice boat-train made by Bugatti Automobile Co. In three hours and 15 minutes he was in Cherbourg, 230 mi. away. This remarkable time advertised the fact that Cherbourg has already speeded up its boat-train service to Paris from 6½ to 4½ hr., will further speed it with Automotrices. President Lebrun's job last week was to open a new $8,000,000 deep water port and maritime station for France...
...separately motored cars. Michigan Central has a gasoline-driven car which is virtually a flanged-wheel motor bus. It does 70 to 90 m.p.h. Philadelphia & Western is using 50 m.p.h. streamlined interurban coaches driven electrically from third rails. France has several gasoline-motored streamlined buses on rails. One, a Bugatti. can do 110 m.p.h., may go on a regular Paris-Deauville run this summer...