THE ITEM
"DAS BUCH VOM AUTO"
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THE WRITER
WERNER GRAFF
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Lovely old book about cars in the 1920's / 1930's, their engines and all the technique, illuminated with illustrations and nostalgic photo's in black-and-white
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SHOWING
MERCEDES-BENZ / RÖHR / LA SALLE / HORCH / CHEVROLET / NAG-BÜSSING / DAIMLER-BENZ / GRAHAM-PAIGE / GENERAL MOTORS / OAKLAND / DKW / BUICK etc. etc.
AND
"CARACCIOLA IN SEINEM MERCEDES-BENZ S.S.K.-WAGEN"
Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (30 January 1901 – 28 September 1959), more commonly Rudolf Caracciola, was a racing driver from Remagen, Germany. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times – twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars. Caracciola raced for Mercedes-Benz during their original dominating Silver Arrows period, named after the silver colour of the cars, and set speed records for the firm. He was affectionately dubbed Caratsch by the German public, and was known by the title of Regenmeister, or "Rainmaster", for his prowess in wet conditions.
Caracciola began racing while he was working as apprentice at the Fafnir automobile factory in Aachen during the early 1920s, first on motorcycles and then in cars. Racing for Mercedes-Benz, he won his first two Hillclimbing Championships in 1930 and 1931, and moved to Alfa Romeo for 1932, where he won the Hillclimbing Championship for the third time. In 1933, he established the privateer team Scuderia C.C. with his fellow driver Louis Chiron, but a crash in practice for the Monaco Grand Prix left him with multiple fractures of his right thigh, which ruled him out of racing for more than a year. He returned to the newly reformed Mercedes-Benz racing team in 1934, with whom he won three European Championships, in 1935, 1937 and 1938. Like most German racing drivers in the 1930s, Caracciola was a member of the Nazi paramilitary group National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), but never a member of the Nazi Party. He returned to racing after the Second World War, but crashed in qualifying for the 1946 Indianapolis 500. A second comeback in 1952 was halted by another crash, in a sports car race in Switzerland.
After he retired Caracciola worked as a Mercedes-Benz salesman targeting North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops stationed in Europe. He died in the German city of Kassel, after suffering liver failure. He was buried in Switzerland, where he had lived since the early 1930s. He is remembered as one of the greatest pre-1939 Grand Prix drivers, a perfectionist who excelled in all conditions. His record of six German Grand Prix wins remains unbeaten.
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE PUBLISHER
K. THIENEMANNS VERLAG
STUTTGART
THE PRINTER
OFFSETDRUCK J.F. STEINKOPF
STUTTGART
1931
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CONDITION
GENERAL
reasonable to good, complete, some writing in pencil on first and last page, small ink-stamp on first page
COVER
rubbed, dirty and discoloured, corners and edges bumped with some damages
SPINE
idem
PAGES
bit discoloured, some (foxy) stains and small signs of usage
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