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This French collection is the world's greatest car museum
From the planet's largest assembly of Bugattis to a bare-breasted can-can girl lounging atop priceless race cars, the French National Car Museum has it all
A row of racing Bugattis in the French National Car Museum in Mulhouse, France
BTW the link to the Museum in the article appears to be wrong. This is the correct one.
This French collection is the world's greatest car museum
From the planet's largest assembly of Bugattis to a bare-breasted can-can girl lounging atop priceless race cars, the French National Car Museum has it all
A row of racing Bugattis in the French National Car Museum in Mulhouse, France
"It wouldn't be French if there wasn't un peu de drame. In this particular case, actually, a whole bunch of drama. You see, these cars were never intended for a public museum. They were actually part of a secretive — indeed, very secretive — private collection. A private collection that was, at best, ill-gotten; at worst, corrupt right from the get-go.
The story goes like this: brothers Schlumpf — Fritz and Hans, but mostly Fritz — were successful wool merchants, their company, SAIL (Société Anonyme pour l'Industrie Lainière), dominating the yarn business in eastern France and employing as many as 3,000 in and around Mulhouse, France. Yarn being a big thing back in the day, they were scandalously rich, and their company, so everyone thought, the very model of fiscal health..."
The story goes like this: brothers Schlumpf — Fritz and Hans, but mostly Fritz — were successful wool merchants, their company, SAIL (Société Anonyme pour l'Industrie Lainière), dominating the yarn business in eastern France and employing as many as 3,000 in and around Mulhouse, France. Yarn being a big thing back in the day, they were scandalously rich, and their company, so everyone thought, the very model of fiscal health..."
BTW the link to the Museum in the article appears to be wrong. This is the correct one.
