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A beaten Bugatti Queen
Throwback Thursday! Robin Batchelor has the wonderful ability to describe a situation in such a way that you actually have the feeling you were there when the Bugatti Queen was beaten...
The lady's not for losing
Imagine for a moment it is 1932. You are Hellé Nice, popularly known as The Bugatti Queen. You have recently won the title 'fastest lady' at the Mount Ventoux Hillclimb and today you have just roared up the Klausen Pass Hill Climb in your Type 35 Bugatti in record time. But what's this? As she is waving to the crowd, she hears the other lady competitor comes skidding around the final corner and across the line in her Bugatti. The timing clock tells her the awful truth - she has been beaten.
Just who is this new champion who has the audacity to snatch glory from The Bugatti Queen? There she is holding the Bugatti's steering wheel in our picture and her name is Emma Munz from Switzerland. She does have a nice smile, but her eyes definitely have a determination in them, and this picture of her shows a smooth driving style. Hellé Nice, on the other hand, is furious and marches over to Emma Munz to have it out with her. Witnesses say: "They fought like a couple of fish wives!" A policeman is reported as pulling his gun from its holster and threatened to shoot the Bugatti's tyres unless they showed some sportsmanship and shook hands. We can assure you such behaviour is discouraged at the finish line of Prescott and Shelsley Walsh.
Words by Robin Batchelor. Pictures from the archive.
Publié:
jeudi mai 14th, 2020
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David GREEN
14 Mai 2020, 11:09
The third photograph appears to show a Bugatti Royale casually parked in the background. If the photograph is contemporary (that is, 1932), it looks to be either number 2, but more likely an early body (possibly the first) on number 4, on the basis that there appears to be a separate chauffeur's compartment. The problem is the front mudguard, which comes down more sharply at the back than any picture I can find for a Royale with this bodywork.
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Al Dray
14 Mai 2020, 12:10
I dont think it is a Royale, but I am not an expert. It does not look long enough or large enough. Could it be an Isotta Fraschini?
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David GREEN
14 Mai 2020, 13:44
I have to say that I thought the wheels were pure Bugatti. Without that, it could be anything with a long bonnet. Even a Cadillac V16.
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Tony Hillyard
14 Mai 2020, 08:54
You can read the full story of the Bugatti Queen in the book of the same name. A good read!
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Michael Müller
14 Mars 2018, 18:17
Emma Munz was not only a good racing driver, but also - very unusual for a woman - an excellent Bugatti mechanic. She was head of workshop at Swiss Bugatti importer Dr. Josef Karrer at Zürich, and later she had this position also at BUCAR when they took over the agency.
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Inconnu
12 Février 2016, 21:56
Emma is a much prettier women as well - no wonder the really nasty Hellé tried to 'bash her up'
And she also drove a Bugatti - insult to injury !
Tony.
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And she also drove a Bugatti - insult to injury !
Tony.
Inconnu
12 Février 2016, 00:32
Helle and Emma look amazingly ALIKE, yet with an obvious difference in personality. Helle has a proportionately wider mouth and smile.
She looks like a sweetheart, and I would have enjoyed sitting next to her anywhere.
Helle retired from racing exactly when she should have done so, with the best and most dangerous competition, BROOKLANDS. Perhaps we may again find her?
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She looks like a sweetheart, and I would have enjoyed sitting next to her anywhere.
Helle retired from racing exactly when she should have done so, with the best and most dangerous competition, BROOKLANDS. Perhaps we may again find her?