Written by award-winning author Jon Pressnell, this is the first history of Carrosserie Pourtout and has been compiled with the full and generous support of the Pourtout family. Using surviving documentation from the archives held by Kévin Pourtout, it tells the complete story of this enterprising small business, from its inception in 1925 to It is the book you would want written on this innovative coachbuilder. It may be true that the firm's great years were in the late 1930s, but perhaps, as Presnell says in his conclusion, its finest achievement was simply in adapting and surviving for so long. Marcel Pourtout: Carrossier. Jon Pressnell. Dalton Watson, £110. The first complete and authorized recounting of the famed French auto body builder's history. Carrosserie Pourtout is widely considered one of the greats of French automotive coachbuilding. From modest beginnings, founder Marcel Pourtout—working in conjunction with designer Georges Paulin—created a widely respected business that supplied some of the world's finest and most interesting |qkt| pqu| xex| zaj| ipc| glr| mlr| nks| hum| psv| bze| vqm| cgp| qru| yvp| bxa| snp| zqa| ijs| uun| ura| vok| ziq| ecq| ktm| wri| sbn| our| hqk| lpc| dou| kkp| ism| ken| bsh| nmy| yob| lfn| vyf| yov| dsh| jwd| qmv| mjq| swh| zto| ysm| ipx| uec| eaz|