When Terrot, Gnome & Rhône, Monet Goyon, Motobécane, Peugeot, René-Gillet Went to War
When Terrot, Gnome & Rhône, Monet Goyon, Motobécane, Peugeot, René-Gillet Went to War

When Terrot, Gnome & Rhône, Monet Goyon, Motobécane, Peugeot and René-Gillet Go to War

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This book will captivate enthusiasts of vintage military motorcycles — and civilian ones alike — from that same dark period in our history.

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1,100 photos

 

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This book covers our shared passion — yours and mine — for vintage motorcycles. It surveys the military production of Terrot, Gnome et Rhône, Monet et Goyon, Motobécane, René Gillet, Peugeot, and others, as well as the Bernardet, Henriet, Vannod and in-house sidecars that sometimes accompanied them. This production has often been overlooked and thus ignored in the various books published to date. Across these 430 pages, through more than 1,100 period photographs (most previously unpublished), you will discover the French motorcycle production that served under our colours. Rich in anecdotes — sabotage, conflicts of interest, technical matters, and more — the book will delight owners of these machines as well as re-enactment enthusiasts, restorers, scale modellers and diorama builders.

Author 1
Jean-Yves Fenautrigues
Publication date
April 2016
Pages
430
Language
French
Publisher
Jean-Yves Fenautrigues

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