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A SINGLE MOTTO : REDUCE WEIGHT AND GET MORE HORSEPOWER FROM THE ENGINE
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Created to challenge the prototypes at le mans thanks to more lenient regulations, it missed out on victory by one lap
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Owned by the private team Nicolas/Laverne, it overwhelmed its rivals and gave Porsche another victory in the Monte Carlo rally
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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