Paul Berk Gijsbert

Broschiertes Buch

André Lefebvre, and the Cars He Created at Voisin and Citroën

Beschreibung

A biography of Andre Lefebvre that offers a revealing insight into the work of a practically unknown aeronautic engineer who, after building and racing competition cars for Gabriel Voisin in 1933, created for Andre Citroen the revolutionary front wheel drive Traction Avant (light fifteen in the UK).

Autor

Gijsbert-Paul Berk studied at the Institute for Automobile Management IVA, Driebergen, and worked as an apprentice for Maurice Gatsonides (Gatso). As a post graduate, he did courses on industrial time- and production management and on marketing communications. His first job was as an assistant in the sports department of the Netherlands Automobile Club, KNAC. At that time he started writing articles for their magazine De Auto. Between 1955 and 1959 he was technical editor of AutoVisie, and the first Dutch journalist to road test the Citroën DS. He participated in various economy runs and was a member of the NAV team, organizing motor races at the Zandvoort circuit. After a stint as a freelance journalist, working for, amongst others, Car and Driver (USA) and Popular Mechanics, as well as writing and translating books, he became PR manager for Renault in the Netherlands. In 1973 he was appointed Deputy Director at the Amsterdam Exhibition and Congress Centre RAI, responsible for all communications. He has also contributed to a TV documentary on the 50th anniversary of the Citroën DS and was a member of the jury for the International Concours d’Elégance at Het Loo, Apeldoorn (Netherlands).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Veloce Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 182mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781845842444
• ISBN-10: 1845842448
• Artikelnr.: 26126714