I am carrying out research on the original Atalanta cars, built before WWII, fascinating vehicles that they were. I have an old friend, who probably has not much longer to go before stepping to a higher plain, who in his younger days during the 1950s, owned L1006 HMX 956 for three years. It was one of the team cars bought by the redoubtable Midge Wilby and used in a number of rallies. It survives in Switzerland and currently looks like this:
However, my query concerns another Atalanta, L1014 KMG 956, which, unlike the other Abbott bodied cars (apart from the prototype No 1, bodied by Bean), was built as a four seater coupe with bodywork by Bertelli. Not Gus Bertelli but his brother, Enrico, who owned the Bertelli coachbuilding company. As an aside, both brothers had connections to Atalanta, Gus with engine input to Gough and Enrico later joining what became the post war Atalanta Engineering Co. Now as far as I have been able to ascertain, this car and its body no longer exist. But, I am hoping someone may have a photograph of the car, which I would very much like to see. A long shot, I know!
Tim
