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French National Motor Museum in Mulhouse

The French cite de l'automobile National Motor Museum is one of our favourite destinations on THE CRANKCASE. tours.
The museum was often called the Schlumpf or just 'Bugatti' museum after the two brothers that assembled the collection and the large number of Bugattis included.
The museum buildings have recently been completely revised with this impressive entrance facade made up of full sized sportscar models interspersed with flying storks.
To do it justice, one could spend a week or longer examining the exhibits, but half a day is usually enough before one is overwhelmed by the quantity and variety, with about 400 exhibits including the worlds largest collection of Bugattis.

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The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Great to see something interesting already in the car park, this time 2 Alfa Romeo Montreals.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Fritz Schlumpfs personal Bugatti 35B with which he raced after the 2nd world war.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Two of the half sized Type 52 electrically powered childrens cars. Supposedly for the children of Bugattis rich customers, around 500 of these 'Baby' beauties were built between 1927 and 1936.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - A 1970 Ferrari 312B formula 1 car raced by Mario Andretti.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The vast halls of the 'decomissioned' textile factory where the Schlumpf brothers had stored their collection, are partly left as they were found back in 1977 when striking workers revolted after the Schlumpf brothers had started to break up the company.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The workers found over 600 cars in the collection which was finally rescued by the French government in a buy out in 1981.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - A fascinating 1936 Voisin C28, almost completely made of aluminium in Art d'eco style.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Beautiful little Bugatti Type 55 Coupe with its 2.3 litre straight 8 cylinder engine.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - A Type 46 with the rare 'streamlined' windscreen treatment designed by Ettore Bugattis son, Jean.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' -
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - One of three Bugatti Type 41 Royales in the collection; the Coupe Napoleon, a replica of the Esders Roadster and this with English Park Ward bodywork.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Only 6 Royales were originally built all with different bodywork on the 4.3m wheelbase chassis powered by a 12.8 litre straight 8 engine.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Exquisite interior upholstery.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' -
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - A 1938 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet with supercharger.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - This 1930 racing Maserati was still being used on the roads of Switzerland in the 1960s !
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - This Alfa Romeo 8C won the 1936 Mille Miglia race with a lead of only 32 seconds after the lights failed.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - A Type 57 cabriolet.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Only 6 of these Type 101s were built around 1951 as an attempt to revive the company post WW2.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - No museum would be complete without a 300SL Gullwing Mercedes, this one in remarkable 'original' condition.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - An Alfa Romeo C52 heading a small Ferrari collection.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The impressive 5 litre 450MM coupe painted in the national racing colours of Annam (now a part of Vietnam) where it belonged to the Emperor Bao Dai.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - One of the first mid engined Ferraris was this 250LM, brought from Sweden with still only 2000km on the clock.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Surprising variety of the collection.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Only natural to have a modern Bugatti Veyron on display also.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Almost every type of Bugatti GP car made . .
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' -
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - And a few others too.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' -
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Glorious 1937 Mercedes Benz W125 producing nearly 650 horse power and 1939 W154 Grand Prix cars driven by Rudolf Caracciola and Helmut Lang.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - This fascinating supercharged Grand Prix engine seems to be a reworked Ferrari Columbo unit, it's even possible to see where the Ferrari script has been removed from the rocker covers.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Maseratis and Gordinis amongst others.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The Bugatti 251 with transverse mid mounted engine at the front right.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The 1955 OSCA TN Simpson Special Bonneville record breaking car achieved over 261kmh over a 10km distance driven by James Simpson from the U.S.A.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The straight 8 Type 251 engine and transmission.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Another Type 52 Baby Bugatti tucked away between larger exhibits.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The replica Esders Royale which wasn't fitted with headlights because Mr Esders never drove at night.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' -
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Some of the wooden buck used in the reconstruction of the car.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - The museum seems to have so many Type 57s, a couple have been left in various stages of construction so that all details of the engineering can be seen.
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' -
The French National Motor Museum Schlumpf 'Bugatti' - Indeed 3 more Type 57s in the exit hall, all with the exotic Atalante coachwork.