Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jerry, could you point me at the article? I'm sure that you are aware that when the Bugatti factory was founded in Molsheim the town was in Germany not France, so the country of origin wasn't strictly speaking France. That part of the word has a bit of history of swapping hands over the years. I'm just curious to see if they thought it was founded in Italy. Steve On 3/2/08 22:43, "Jerry Lehrer" <glehrer@san.rr.com> wrote: > > As usual the Times even screwed up the country of origin of the > Bugatti. (It was French, you AH!). I visited the old > Bugatti works and castle at Molsheim , FRANCE. They even sold me an > old steering wheel from a Bugatti model 59.