The Blue Train Races were a series of record-breaking attempts between automobiles and trains in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It saw a number of motorists and their own or sponsored automobiles race against the Le Train Bleu, a train that ran between Calais and the French Riviera. The rationale to beat the train was to compare the contemporary automotive performance with locomotive dominance; to showcase recent progress achieved by cars regarding reliability, durability, speed and comfort; to promote the cars, their marques and the adventurous persona of their drivers; and to establish automobiles as a viable and aspirational mode of transport for the individual traveller.
The BlueTrainRaces were a series of record-breaking attempts between automobiles and trains in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It saw a number of motorists...
Cannes, during the BlueTrainRaces, Woolf Barnato raised the stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six. Having raced and beaten Le Train Bleu for the first...
referred to as Le Train Bleu in French (which became its formal name after World War II) and the BlueTrain in English because of its dark-blue sleeping cars...
their train, May compared the contest to the earlier BlueTrainRaces, won by a Rover Light Six and Bentley Speed Six against Le Train Bleu or The Blue Train...
1930, during the BlueTrainRaces, Woolf Barnato raised the stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six having raced and beaten Le Train Bleu for the first...
During the March 1930 BlueTrainRaces, Barnato raised the stakes on Rover and its Rover Light Six, having raced and beaten Le Train Bleu for the first time...
Pullman subsidiary. March 13–14 – BlueTrainRaces: Woolf Barnato driving his Speed Six BlueTrain Bentley saloon races Le Train Bleu from Cannes. He is parked...
events but a Spartan noblewoman is known to have trained horse-teams for the Olympics and won two races, one of them as driver. In ancient Rome, chariot...
Building on successes such as beating the BlueTrain for the first time in 1930 in the BlueTrainRaces, the Wilks Brothers established Rover as a company...
first successful participant in the BlueTrainRaces, a series of record-breaking attempts between automobiles and trains in the late 1920s and early 1930s...
Blue Archive (Japanese: ブルーアーカイブ; Korean: 블루 아카이브; Chinese: 蔚蓝档案) is a South Korean role-playing game developed by Nexon Games (formerly NAT Games), a...
The British Classics are five long-standing Group 1 horse races run during the traditional flat racing season. They are restricted to three-year-old horses...
of Man TT, expanding in 1911 to two individual races for the 350cc Junior TT motor-cycles and the Blue Riband event the 500cc Senior TT race. The race...
horse if they think the horse has not been trained to its fullest potential under another trainer. Claiming races serve several purposes. They are a quality...
to break Ballyregan Bob's world record and went on to win 36 consecutive races. In 1995, a greyhound called JJ Doc Richards won his 37th consecutive greyhound...
Group races, also known as Pattern races, or Graded races in some jurisdictions, are the highest level of races in Thoroughbred horse racing. They include...
racehorse trainer. As of May 2024 he has won over 2,000 races, with 21 horses winning Grade I races. McPeek is an individual winner of all three races in the...
Bentley Speed Sixes became known as the BlueTrain Bentleys after their owner Woolf Barnato raced the BlueTrain in 1930. By 1924 Bentley had been in business...
which celebrated the United States Bicentennial. Each train had its own special red, white and blue paint scheme and its own itinerary and route across...
jockey at Blue Bonnets Raceway in Montreal, Quebec. Battling weight problems, after riding 161 race winners, in 1942 he began working as a trainer in New...
also References External links List of alien races in DC Comics is a list of fictional extraterrestrial races that have appeared in comic book titles published...
The Foxfield Races are a set of steeplechase races that originated in 1978 and are held twice annually in Albemarle County, Virginia, approximately eight...
Aryan traits such as athleticism, blond hair and blue eyes was encouraged, while the "inferior races" and people with physical or mental illness were...
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