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Trivia Interesting facts on Automobiles. Film and TV cars ,famous race events.

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  • 1923 Le Mans

    1923 Le Mans

    1923 24 Hours of Le Mans The 1923 Amilcar 24-le-Mans Car Drivers Boutmy & Marcadanti The 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans was the very first Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 26 and 27 May 1923. The original intention of the race was for a winner to be declared following three straight years of co ...

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious Cars (2003)

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    2 Fast 2 Furious Cars (2003)

    2 Fast 2 Furious, Movie Cars from 2003 The 1999 R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R The second movie in the Fast 2 Furious series. Plot After letting Dominic Toretto escape from the authorities, Brian O'Conner relocates from Los Angeles to Miami and makes a living by participating in illegal street races. 2002 ...

  • Alec Issigonis

    Alec Issigonis

    Alec Issigonis Car designer Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS,RDI (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 19 ...

  • Barker

    Barker

    Barker coachbuilder History View cars built by Barker Here Barker & Co. was a coachbuilder, a maker of luxurious carriages and in the 20th century bodywork for very expensive prestige cars. History Founded in London in 1710 by a guards officer it more recently traded as Barker & Co. Limited. After ...

  • Bertone History

    Bertone History

    Bertone coachbuilding History 1912 Italy Industry Automotive Founded Turin, Italy (1912) Headquarters Turin, Italy Key people Giovanni Bertone Lilli Bertone Services Engineering products and processes, building prototypes and cars, producing special windscreens Employees 1250 Divisions Stile Berton ...

  • Blue Train Races

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    Blue Train Races

    Blue Train Race The Blue Train Races were a series of record-breaking attempts between automobiles and trains in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It saw a number of motorists and their own or sponsored automobiles race against "le train bleu". The Blue Train Bentleys, two Bentley Speed Six automobil ...

  • BP Advertising 1920s

    BP Advertising 1920s

    British Petroleum Company Advertising 1920s From 1909-1933 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. later became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co of Britannic House, Finsbury Circus, London, EC2. (1935-1954) In 1925, TPC received concession in the Mesopotamian oil resources from the Iraqi government under British mand ...

  • BP Advertising from the 1950s

    BP Advertising from the 1950s

    BP Advertising from the 1950s In April 1951, the Iranian government nationalised the Iranian oil industry by unanimous vote, and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was formed, displacing the AIOC.The AIOC withdrew its management from Iran, and Britain organized an effective worldwide embargo o ...

  • BP Advertising from the 1960s

    BP Advertising from the 1960s

    BP Advertising from the 1960s By the 1960s the technology of oil exploration had improved considerably. The company had looked for oil in the UK for nearly 50 years without a single large discovery. In 1962, Scottish Oils ceased oil-shale operations. In 1965, it was the first company to strike oil ...

  • BP Company Advertising 1930s

    BP Company Advertising 1930s

    British Petroleum Company Advertising from the 1930s In 1932, APOC and Royal Dutch Shell formed the joint marketing company in the United Kingdom named Shell-Mex and BP. In 1934, APOC and Gulf Oil founded the Kuwait Oil Company as an equally owned partnership. The oil concession rights were awarded ...

  • British Sports cars

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    British Sports cars

    British Sports cars Under Construction History and view by decade of British Sports cars View all British Sports cars in related items Below.

  • Bus & Coach

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    Bus & Coach

    Bus & Coach View all Coach & Buses in related items Below. A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers.The most common type of bus is the single-decker rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker and articulated buses, and ...

  • Campervan

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    Campervan

    Campervan View all camper vans in related items Below. A campervan (or camper van), sometimes referred to as a camper, or a caravanette, is a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation. The term mainly describes vans that have been fitted out, often with a coachb ...

  • Car in films 2010s

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    Car in films 2010s

    Cars featured in films in the 2010s Here we put together a collection of cars from films of the 2010s Some main featured others just used during filming. For more information and technical details view the link at the top of page. The Transporter Refueled (2015) In the south of France, former speci ...

  • Carbodies of Coventry

    Carbodies of Coventry

    Carbodies of Coventry A Alvis TA14 from Carbodies of Coventry View cars built by Carbodies Here Carbodies Limited is a British company, based at Holyhead Road, Coventry. It started business as a coachbuilder, and now, as The London Taxi Company is best known for its production of London taxicabs. H ...

  • Carlton Carriage Co

    Carlton Carriage Co

    Carlton Carriage Co Waldo road Willesden, North London.UK The Carlton Carriage Company were an English coachbuilder based in Willesden, North London. from 1925 Originally formed as E.B. Hall & Co, they moved from making horse-drawn carriages to making custom car bodies commissioned directly by cust ...