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[Bikr7549]

HI,

The Phil Irving thread got me thinking, has there been a biography of Robert Eberan von Eberhorst? Or a book about his experiences that he himself wrote? Maybe not in the same class as Dr Porsche or Colin Chapman, or all that much car depth as others, but very interesting work that he did, pre and post war.

 

Bob

[Vitesse2]

There's an article about him in Automobile Quarterly Vol 19 No 2 and German Wikipedia says he features in a book called Das Rad der Zeit - although this turns out to be the general history book published in English as A History of Progress, which is easy to find as I believe at one time it was given to every new Audi employee when they joined!

 

But no 'proper' biography - although his personal papers are apparently in the care of Dresden Technical University.

[Steve L]

I have a feeling there is a good section about him (interview?) in Chris Nixon's excellent book "Racing the Silver Arrows".

[proviz]

I have a feeling there is a good section about him (interview?) in Chris Nixon's excellent book "Racing the Silver Arrows".

 

Three (very) full pages written in the first person.

[Roger Clark]

I’ve just read the AQ article mentioned by Vitesse2. Its very comprehensive and told me a lot I didn’t know.   His time at Aston Martin is covered, in his own words, in Volume 2 of Racing the David Brown Aston Martins. He seems to have enjoyed his time in England but found the methods of ERA and Aston Martin somewhat different from what he was used to. In 1951 he wrote an article for Autocourse on the performance of that year’s Grand Prix cars, compete with mathematical formulae to support his conclusions.