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[Vitesse2]

Letzeburgesch is funny to listen to.  Like a very camp German.  Perhaps because they have fewer staccato and guttural sounds. 

There's a Luxembourger who lives in my village. If you weren't looking at him when he spoke you'd swear it was Steve Pemberton as Herr Lipp from League of Gentlemen.

[BRG]

​Back to minor treasures - the telling German GP programme, 1936:

 

 

 

Ruddy hell, if that cover didn't sound a warning of the coming storm, I don't know what else would have done.  I guess Neville Chamberlain never saw that...

[opplock]

  I guess Neville Chamberlain never saw that...

 

 It is a sad indictment of the education system in UK that a significant minority now want to tear down the statue of the one senior politician who opposed Hitler before he started marching into other countries. 

 

I'm no fan of Chamberlain. On a walking tour of Cesky Krumlov about 10 years ago I felt it necessary to apologise to the guide for what he rightly referred to as their betrayal by the British and French. Anyone offended by that description needs a history lesson.   

[Vitesse2]

 It is a sad indictment of the education system in UK that a significant minority now want to tear down the statue of the one senior politician who opposed Hitler before he started marching into other countries. 

 

I'm no fan of Chamberlain. On a walking tour of Cesky Krumlov about 10 years ago I felt it necessary to apologise to the guide for what he rightly referred to as their betrayal by the British and French. Anyone offended by that description needs a history lesson.   

Chamberlain has been reassessed in recent years - the narrative set by the book 'The Guilty Men' has perhaps held sway too long. To a great extent Chamberlain and Daladier were hamstrung at Munich by the failure of Baldwin and Sarraut to resist the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936 - that was the great missed opportunity, since if it had failed - and it probably would have done if the French had been bolder, just as they should also have been in September 1939 - there were significant figures in the Wehrmacht who were ready and willing to topple Hitler ...

 

Chamberlain did buy us an extra year, during which he authorised an enormous - by the standards of those days - rearmament programme, organised shadow factories and introduced peacetime conscription. I will concede that he was no war leader though.

 

However, this is neither the time nor the place.

[ensign14]

I'm no fan of Chamberlain. On a walking tour of Cesky Krumlov about 10 years ago I felt it necessary to apologise to the guide for what he rightly referred to as their betrayal by the British and French. Anyone offended by that description needs a history lesson.   

LOL, even the Holocaust is now Britain's fault.

[MCS]

 

Lola Cars' press release lauching their Formula 5000 T142 car for 1969 - I recall Jenks describing F5000 cars as "Great gormless and uncultured - but quite good racing..."

 

 

 

DCN

Interesting note at the bottom.  Was John Miles down to drive the F5000 Lotus at some point?

[BRG]

However, this is neither the time nor the place.

Listen, don't mention the war!  I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it alright.

[Doug Nye]

1937 Coppa Acerbo, Pescara:

 

 

 

 

DCN

[Ray Bell]

What a great map...

 

I wish I'd had that when I went there.

[jj2728]

What a great entry list....wish I could have been there.

[68targa]

Quality not quantity.  A near 11 min lap with not a lot happening in between but it would have been worth it just to see and hear the Auto Unions and Mercedes.  I believe only six cars were running at the end.

[Ray Bell]

I reckon you'd have heard them winding them up the hill to Spoltore from the middle of the city...

 

Less so screaming down the long straight towards the town, but echoing off the buildings in town too.

 

Not much left now...

 

 

...that's all I found.

[MCS]

What a great map...

 

I wish I'd had that when I went there.

Well, if nothing else, it's made me find The Last Road Race, which I will now happily read again

 

Great thread

[Doug Nye]

Back to 1930 - and no ordinary, run-of-the-mill speed meet...

 

 

 

 

Forward to Europe, 1954, Monza's sports car classic, the Supercortemaggiore 1,000Kms - won by Hawthorn and Maglioli for Ferrari

 

 

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 03 July 2020 - 20:43.

[Ray Bell]

I hope it's okay to use your Coppa Acerbo map etc in my trip thread, Doug?

 

It will give my readers some appreciation of just what went on there...