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Gaston Grummer : à prix réduit Lart de la carrosserie par Philippe Grummer & Laurent FriryCountry of Manufacture:United States Subject:Biography & Autobiography Topic:automotive Year Printed:2018 Special Attributes:1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Slipcase Place of Publication:United States Publisher:Dalton Watson Fine Books Language:English à prix réduit
Country/Region of Manufacture:United States ISBN:9781854432940 The years between the two World Wars was an extraordinary period for the French luxury car trade and during this time, Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer was one of the leading coach building houses in Paris.
Descended from a long line of coach builders, Gaston Grümmer was the son of Antoine-Joseph whose company, J. Grümmer formerly V. Morel, produced first, from 1845, exceptional horse-drawn carriages and from the 1890s automotive bodies. Trained in the family business before World War I, Gaston Grümmer, spent the war as a soldier, first on horseback and in the trenches and then in the air as a pilot. At the end of hostilities, he brilliantly re-launched the family business transforming it into the Société Anonyme des Etablissements Grümmer. As the company moved towards the production of series bodywork for various manufacturers, Gaston decided that he wanted to break away to build custom cars and in 1924 he created his own company under the name of Carrosserie Gaston Grümmer. For the next ten years he achieved great success on both aesthetic and technical levels.
Thanks to recently discovered and previously unpublished archives, his son, Philippe Grümmer, in association with one of the best French automotive historians, Laurent Friry, takes us back to this glorious period during the "Roaring Twenties" recalling the major events of the Concours dElégance and Les Salons de lAuto, and describes the bodies that Gaston Grümmer produced for the chassis of around 54 manufacturers and the hundred or so prizes which he won.
Illustrated with photographs, press articles and period documents, including the reproduction of a series of design drawings, this reference book on bodywork of the time is a must for any student of the period.
- Shortlisted for 2018 Historic Motoring Awards Book of the Year
- Two volumes
- Page count: 736
- Images: Total images: 1,023
Topics covered include:- Gaston Grümmer/ The History of Grümmer Carrosserie
- French coachbuilders, including: Grümmer, Kellner, Saoutchik, Figoni, Pourtout and more.
- Manufacturers, including: Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Delage, Delahaye, Duesenberg, Ferrari, Fiat, Hispano-Suizaand more.
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Gaston Grummer : à prix réduit Lart de la carrosserie par Philippe Grummer & Laurent Friry