Word: voisin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosamond Pinchot Gaston was featured in a Hupmobile advertisement. A description of her said: "She adores horses, motor cars, and motor boats. . . . Peel of London makes her riding boots, and Nardi her habits. . . . Her favorite luncheon place is the Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They know her in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, New York, and points west as the nun in The Miracle, and all over Europe as a member of Max Reinhardt's Repertoire company. . . . She shuttles between New York and an island off the coast of Maine by train, car, and speed boat. . . . Her personal...
Married. Gifford Pinchot II, nephew of onetime Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brother of Rosamond Pinchot. famed society actress (The Miracle); and Janine Voisin, daughter of Gabriel Voisin. French engineer and automobile manufacturer; in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France...
Engaged. Gifford Pinchot 2d, nephew of onetime Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brother of Rosamond Pinchot, famed society actress (The Miracle); to Janine Voisin, daughter of Gabriel Voisin, French engineer and automobile manufacturer...
...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...
Inventor Knight, prophet outcast at home, went to England, where the Daimler company of Coventry, was "sold" on the new motor. This was in 1908. Since then the Knight motor has become prized equipment for the Mercedes in Germany, the Panhard, Peugeot and Voisin in France, the Minerva in Belgium, the Russell-Knight in Canada...