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Pedro Ferreira sent us these pictures of a Cottin & Desgouttes exhibited in a small museum in Lisbon, the « Museu Fernando Pessa », unfortunately closed to the public. It is a 1913 Torpedo 22/30, completely original according to Pedro. He adds: "I have been told that the photographed car S-1848 was first registered to the dealer A. Black on 17 April 1914 and then to the final customer Joaquim Freire d’Andrade on 3 June 1914. See the A. Black ad in Advertisements.
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The Centre International de l'Automobile in Pantin is now closed. The car that features in the film La vie est un roman was on display in this museum;
several pictures of it are available on the Pantin page. More information on the CIA is available on Didier Tougard's Web site (French only, scroll down to "93 Pantin"). |
Musée Malartre at Rochetaillée-sur-Saône and Collection Schlumpf in Mulhouse : at our last visits, there were no Cottin & Desgouttes cars. Both museums appear to have recently acquired cars that may now be on display.
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Information on part of the Schlumpf family collection (the Malmerspach Collection) is available here. This collection includes this Cottin & Desgouttes ; there is a small sight of the car in this video of the collection (if the video is not visible on the page, here is a direct link). |
Many thanks to Yves Mariet for these pictures of the Traversée de Bordeaux. Note les twin back wheels which were used by Cottin & Desgouttes for the 1920 tourer chassis in its 32 hp version. The engine of this car was over 7 liters and only a few were built.
The Marius Berliet Automobile Foundation presented three cars, including their Saharian "Sans Secousse" in the Entrance hall of the CIC Lyonnaise de Banque - 8 rue de la République - Lyon 1er.
RetroMobile was held from 8 to 17 February 2008 in Paris. An auction was organised by Bonhams during the fair and there was a Cottin Desgouttes on sale. While browsing the various booths, we also found an advert for Steigboy including a letter from Cottin & Desgouttes (see Advertisements) as well a a remarkable book on the Mont Ventoux hill climb by Maurice Louche (see References).
The Bonhams area was beautiful, with many incredibly nice cars, most remarkably restored. Lot 101, a 1920 Cottin Desgouttes cruiser marked "Sapeurs Pompier Odenas Rhône" certainly needed a good restoration, however it was bought for over 30 000 euros. There is a description of the car at Bonhams.
Lyon, November 9 to 11, 2007. A 1911 Cottin-Desgouttes de 1911 was exhibited on the stand of the Automobile Club d'Aix-en-Provence. Pictures are available in the "Lettre de la Fondation de l'automobile Marius-Berliet".
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Read the "Point d'Actu" at the Bibliothèque de Lyon about the exhibit that was organized in June 2007
