2024/06/01

SILVER ARROWS


«Hitler came to power in Germany early in 1933, and he immediately identified Grand Prix racing as a powerful tool in propagating the image of Aryan superiority. Backed by Nazi subsidies, Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union entered the competition with revolutionary new models in 1934 that rendered the various Italian and French machinery completely obsolete.»

                                                    

                 

                             


Scene no 67: The Silberpfeile of Auto Union (Schuco Studio II) and Mercedes-Benz (Schuco Studio), under the Hakenkreuz Flag and the Reich Eagle (John Player & Sons cigarette cards, National Flags and Arms, Germany, no 19 from a series of 50). Next to the racing cars, their legendary drivers Bernd Rosemeyer and Rudolf Caracciola (Preiser 57108, Racing drivers, 1:24).

The text: From The Complete Unofficial Encyclopedia of FORMULA ONE, by Mark Hughes.   

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