De Dietrich-Bugatti

Bugatti Type 5 is the common name for a car model of the car maker De Dietrich. Two copies of this race car created from 1902 to 1903 as De Dietrich, Licence Bugatti 60CV course.

Ettore Bugatti had built his first automobile before age of 21 and thus raced. In 1901 he won the Grand Prix in Milan with an automobile constructed by him. These known as Bugatti Type 2 racing car, he presented the same year at the International Exhibition in Milan, where he noticed the Alsatian industrialist Eugène de Dietrich. This committed Bugatti as a designer for a new line of automobiles that were offered in addition to the licensed products based in Marseille automaker Turcat - Méry. These models are also called Dietrich- Bugatti.

The Type 5 is the thought by far the strongest of the three models and for racing. The types 3 and 4 were luxurious passenger cars with similar design elements. Because Bugatti had already worked prior to joining De Dietrich on all three models can not pinpoint the time sequence. However, the work on the Type 5 must surely have begun as early as 1902, because Bugatti so wanted to participate, among others in the race Paris -Madrid. Because of the too far back arranged seats, which allowed no clear view of the road, the two Type 5 were disqualified even before the launch in Paris of the Scrutineers. It is also to suggest that the Alsatian home of the De Dietrich, Hermes simplex and from 1909 also the Bugatti cars as National Rural Alsace-Lorraine belonged to the German Empire since 1871, a disqualification from national considerations caused. Ultimately allowed Ettore Bugatti ( with the starting number 142) does not start and missed a so " disasters race " in which several drivers and several spectators were killed.

As a result, Bugatti built at least one of the two Type 5 to a more conventional steering with a slightly elevated seating position. At least one race Bugatti has denied the converted type 5.

The designed for De Dietrich Bugatti types 3, 4 and 5 also influenced the later designs, Bugattis for Hermes simplex and Deutz.

Specifications

Source

  • Hugh G. Conway: Les Grandes Marques: Bugatti. Gründ, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-7000-5175-0, pp. 8-9. (French)

Weblink

  • Malte Juergens: Rendezvous with Death. In: Motor Klassik. February 27, 2009, accessed on 1 January 2014.
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