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Traditionally, in the section Miscellaneous news It is mainly dedicated to round May anniversaries with dates ending in 5. We commemorate personalities, races, car shows, news and new books.
Ferdinand Porsche left a significant mark on the history of passenger cars, military and racing cars. At the beginning of the century he was known as the designer of Lohner-Porsche cars. The brands Austro-Daimler, Mercedes-Benz and Steyr followed. When he founded his own design office in Stuttgart, he also added Wanderer, Auto-Union, Volkswagen and finally Panzer and Tiger tanks.
The factory, the oldest part of which was built in 1834, was owned by a Swiss industrialist and businessman. Nicholas Vonwiller. He was a prominent fabric merchant who owned a cotton textile factory in Milan. He had another linen textile factory in Austria and built a wool textile factory in Žamberk, where Baron John Parish offered him a plot on his estate. Today, there is a wonderful Museum of Old Machines and Technologies, through whose grounds you can ride a steam train on a narrow-gauge track several times a year.
In 1955, six recent graduates from prestigious British universities set off in two Land Rovers from London to an expedition into the unknown. The goal was Singapore and the reward was a place in history. The journey took six months and six days and covered about 29,000 kilometers. They were the first to travel this route.
The Rudge-Whitworth brand is not only associated with famous English bicycles, but at several fortunate intervals, the Rudge Whitworth, Ltd., in Crow Lane, Coventry, also produced remarkable motorcycles. The most significant of these from the perspective of the history of motorcycling were the gearless belt-driven single-cylinders that the Coventry company produced in the 1910s and 1920s under the name Rudge Multi. They offered a solution for optimizing engine speed without the use of a gearbox, using an ingenious variator. This was such a fundamental move that the company completely outclassed the competition for several years – before classic gearboxes began to be used.
During one week in Monterey Cars worth a total of $432.8 million were sold here, the most since the record year of 2022. There were slightly fewer cars to choose from, but in the end there were still 1,078 cars offered by auction houses Bonhams, Broad Arrow, Gooding Christie's, Mecum and RM Sotheby's, of which 818 found new owners.
Calendar of events, private and commercial advertising, that's the content of the last pages of this year's next issue Journal Engine.
