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PORSCHE 935/78 « Moby Dick »

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05/05/2024

PORSCHE 911 CARRERA 2.8 RSR

A SINGLE MOTTO : REDUCE WEIGHT AND GET MORE HORSEPOWER FROM THE ENGINE

01/05/2024

PORSCHE 917 kH

The most refined engine never created by porsche

30/04/2024

PORSCHE 911 SC « safari »

Stronger, higher

29/04/2024

PORSCHE 911 GT1

Created to challenge the prototypes at le mans thanks to more lenient regulations, it missed out on victory by one lap

28/04/2024

911 carrera 1978

Owned by the private team Nicolas/Laverne, it overwhelmed its rivals and gave Porsche another victory in the Monte Carlo rally

27/04/2024

TWR/PORSCHE WSC-95 1997

A ‘nobody's girl’ twice victorious at Le Mans, or the fairytale of a prototype developed on a budget that humiliated even the 911 GT1

26/04/2024

PORSCHE 919 hybrid 2015

With two cars participating, the 919 Hybrid will debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) of 2014

25/04/2024

PORSCHE 935 Gr.5 1977

For 1977, Porsche prepares a dozen 935s for private racing teams. At le mans, one of them finishes third overall and first in group 5.

24/04/2024

PORSCHE 908/3 1970

Thanks to its very low weight, this model, which made Porsche dominant in the 1970 Targa Florio, also won at the Nürburgring

23/04/2024

PORSCHE 961-1987

The success of the 959 Dakar made Porsche decide to create a track version, the 961, which performed well at Le Mans in 1986

22/04/2024

PORSCHE 917/10 TC - 1972

In 1972, thanks to the power of its turbo engine, the 917 discovery succeeded in breaking the domination of McLaren in the Can-am championship.

21/04/2024

PORSCHE 356 1951

Légère et aérodynamique, la version course de la première Porsche de route débute au Mans avec deux victoires de catégorie de suite

20/04/2024

PORSCHE 962 C - 1986

La descendante directe de la 956 débute en Europe en 1985 et confirme son statut de championne absolue en triomphant au Mans

19/04/2024

PORSCHE 935L - 1983

Parmi les variantes de la 935 « Moby Dick », la version d’Andial, victorieuse des 24 Heures de Daytona 1983, est l’une des plus glorieuses

18/04/2024

PORSCHE 908/02 Spyder 1969

Transformée en spider pour profiter du nouveau règlement, la 908, après un début difficile, domine la discipline au cours de la saison 1969

29/02/2024

THE SITUATION OF THE SNCF NETWORK FOLLOWING THE LIBERATION

In a France split in two by the demarcation line, only the railways could operate uninterrupted. A historical paradox represented by the case of Avricourt station, between Paris and Strasbourg, which regained its position as a frontier station that it had been between 1871 and 1918!

28/02/2024

EXPLORING THE 141-R IN THE USA

At the time of the Liberation, the state of the French network was such that it was virtually impossible to operate it without a massive and unprecedented influx of new locomotives. Of the 17,259 locomotives owned by the SNCF in 1938, the occupying forces had "borrowed" 2,946 for use on the German network, and around 6,000 were still in working order.

27/02/2024

A JOURNEY OF 6,000 KM WITH 1,340 LOCOMOTIVES WEIGHING 200,000 TONNES

These were the figures for the biggest transport operation of new locomotives in the history of the railways. The French Ministry of the Merchant Navy trusted a global organisation, the United Maritime Authority, to plan the operation.

26/02/2024

RECEPTION OF THE 141-R IN FRANCE

The term 'welcome' is an understatement. These locomotives were nicknamed "Miss Libération", "Miss Liberté" or "Miss Désirée" by railway workers and the general public, and they quickly became legendary.

22/02/2024

THE 141-R AND LARGE PASSENGER TRAINS

Nothing in the design of the 141-R was intended for the large passenger trains of the 1940s and 1950s in France.

21/02/2024

141-R AND OMNIBUS PASSENGER TRAINS

The 141-Rs pulled the SNCF omnibus trains composed of "three-legs"!

20/02/2024

THE 141-R AND FREIGHT TRAINS

It was especially on the freight trains of the 1940s to 1970s that the 141-Rs proved their qualities; (...)

18/02/2024

141-r and mountain railway lines

Unlike roads, with gradients measured in centimetres per metre, railways, transporting loads in the hundreds of tonnes with a derisory expenditure of energy, only accept gradients measured in millimetres per metre.

16/02/2024

141-R conquering the Mediterranean

The ‘M’ in PLM doesn't stand for Marseille. Many people believe that PLM stands for ‘Paris, Lyon, Marseille’, whereas the great network was intended to be the railway from Paris to Lyon and the Mediterranean, since it had a broad vision...