1934 BUGATTI TYPE 57 Chassis 57109 engine... - Lot 44

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1934 BUGATTI TYPE 57 Chassis 57109 engine... - Lot 44 - Osenat

1934 BUGATTI TYPE 57 Chassis 57109 engine 11 4-seater convertible by Bugatti The chassis type 57 engine 11 is assembled at the factory in March 1934 as well as the chassis with engines 9-10-12 and 14. The factory invoice was issued on March 29, 1934 to the account of the Bugatti agent in Algiers, Mr. Sagnier, for 58,265 ff. On the same day, the sales register shows "57109/11. Sagnier. Cabriolet. 29.3.34". The Bugatti Carrosserie Register notes "Cabriolet 57/11- 31/3 -57109/11" The Routing Register indicates that Cabriolet 57109/11 was shipped by road to Sagnier on Thursday, March 29, 1934. This means that the car is driven from Molsheim to Marseille by a worker of the factory before reaching Algiers by boat. The first Stelvio convertibles by Bugatti. The Stelvio model is one of the three creations of the factory's design office, which proposed a unique range of 4-seater vehicles for 1934, available as a 4-door Galibier sedan, a 2-door Ventoux coach and a 2-door Stelvio convertible. The rhythm of manufacture of the Stelvio convertible begins in January 1934 by the construction of the first convertible, car with engine N°6, temporary plate 57103. The second cabriolet is our car 57109 with engine N° 11 finished at the end of March, then a third cabriolet 57128 engine N°22 at the end of April, before the assembly of four new cabriolets in May, five in June, three in July, four in August, three in September and one per month from October to December 1934, that is to say a total of 25 Stelvio cabriolets by Bugatti in 1934. In 1935, 16 more Stelvios were built by the Bugatti coachbuilder, and three more were built in 1936, before the Gangloff workshops in Colmar took over the production of the convertibles on type 57 chassis. The customer price for the Stelvio in 1934 was 80,000ff, then in October 1935 85,000ff, 83,000ff for the Galibier sedan and 82,000ff for the Ventoux coach. In the sun of the white city. Exhibition at the 2nd Algiers Fair 1934. The 57109 convertible should be in sight of the Algerian coast by March 30, 1934, and is eagerly awaited by the Algerian Bugatti dealer Sagnier, as it will be exhibited at the Salon de l'Automobile held during the IInd Algiers Fair from March 24 to April 9, 1934. The Sagnier garage located at 58-60 Michelet street in Algiers was founded in March 1914. It was a Cottin-Desgouttes, Bugatti and then Talbot dealer. When Henri Sagnier died on November 25, 1933, his widow took over the business with their only son Valentin. Mrs. Sagnier received the Governor General at length on her stand on the day of the inauguration. The April 14, 1934 issue of the weekly magazine "L'Afrique du Nord Illustrée" includes a report on the Algiers Fair and the automobile show. Two pictures of the Bugatti-Talbot stand of the Sagnier company are published and discover the 57 Stelvio convertible with black lacquered red wheels, two-tone body, flanges covering the rear wheels and probably red and black with a white cotton hood. This convertible engine No. 11 is equipped with a single-blade bumper in the form of a parenthesis, unlike the first convertible, engine car No. 6, which came out of the bodywork on January 24, 1934, and which will be used by Friderich at the Morocco rally in April, equipped with a central headlight and a bumper with two horizontal blades. The article reads as follows: "The great manufacturer from Molsheim, of which Etablissements Sagnier is the dealer, is exhibiting a magnificent cabriolet on a 19 hp, 3-liter 300 double camshaft touring chassis, a mechanical marvel. With his last model, the performances carried out in Monthléry, at an average of 152 km 700, were achieved with the type of car delivered to the customers. It seems that this first Bugatti 57 sold on Algerian soil was used by Sagnier himself, and the name of the first Algerian owner is not known to us, but the original license plate could be identified: 5033 AL 13. A second Stelvio cabriolet, chassis 57129, was shipped in early November 1934 by Robert Aumaitre to Marseille for the pilot Soulié, a Sagnier customer, and was invoiced at 58,784 ff. This car was equipped with flanged wheels. A third convertible 57, made by Gangloff in 1937 for a customer from Tipaza, who kept it until 1950.the Algerian sun favors the sale of new convertible cars from the metropolis. Second life in New Aquitaine and on the banks of the Loire. The cabriolet returned to France in the spring of 1947. The last Algerian owner had acquired it on February 5, 1947. On May 22, 1947, the vehicle is registered at the prefecture of Vienne under the number 3030 ZH4 in the name of Norbert LLEDO, Fruits and Primeurs, 1 rue Grandin in Châtellerault. There is a Norbert Lledo native of Kolea, forty kilometers from Algiers. If he is indeed our man, he probably brought the Bugatti with him when he left Algeria. One year later,

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