F#169 - SOLVED - 1935 'Bisiluro' by M. Jean Lacaine

[faksta]

The information about this one is very limited. For one point give me the name of a person responsible for this vehicle (I probably have it with a spelling mistake), approximate year and purpose.

[faksta]

I'll be moving it a bit faster than usually. So, up it goes.

[faksta]

Pro

[Allemano]

Do you know if it was ever built?

[faksta]

The article suggests so, but I'm not sure.

I stand corrected. It reads 'designed', so it was not necessarily built.

[faksta]

I was hoping to fin some info here in fact, but seems no one recognizes the car...

Hint: it's European.

[Oguerrerob]

Looks similar to Tarf 1 de Piero Taruffi

[faksta]

It does, but compare the size

[Oguerrerob]

I've found another similar but has no name for it

[faksta]

I think this is the same, judging by year and the looks. Wouldn't wonder if this is the original source of info for my one. Locked until your next reply.

[Oguerrerob]

The cover is signed by Edgar Franklin Wittmack
From Wikipedia:
Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894–1956) was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s.[1][2] His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings. Where Rockwell specialized in the humorous aspects of small town life, Wittmack dealt mainly with male-oriented interests. He often painted heroic or action-type figures for the "Saturday Evening Post",[1][2] "American Boy",[1][2] "Outdoor Life"[3] and many of the other pulp magazines of the time.
However, he is probably most known for the covers he created for "Popular Science". His "retro-futuristic" style was used during the depression to artistically convert the ideas of inventive Americans into unique visual expressions of potential reality.

[faksta]

Sorry, missed your reply.  

So, as I said, I was looking for more info on this car myself. The drawing could have probably made by E.F.Wittmack, I don't know for sure. The source I took this picture from has most probably reprinted the drawing from the inside of this magazine issue and was referring to it as to a real project (not sure if it was done or was being performed then and can't say whether it has been finished) with a real name of a non-American person who was responsible for it. They even mentioned engine output.

I open this for all, maybe someone will come up with something certain?

[faksta]

Another hint: the car is (or should have been?) French.

[Oguerrerob]

 Hi-Speed Racing Car with Twin Hulls is the name that appeared in Popular Science Magazine Cover No. 132 June 1938. Maybe has a proper name? Because you pointed that is a french design.

[faksta]

I'm not sure it had any proper name, all I need now is the name of the builder, who was French (or at least seemed to live in France and had a French surname). Year and purpose - correct

[D-type]

Time to 

[faksta]

The info I know.

Designed in 1938 by a French designer Jean L...... (I don't know the correct spelling of his second name though, so don't count the dots) to beat the world land speed record. Equipped with two engines of 700hp (guess, in common).

[oko94]

Let's try something : designed by Jean Legrand ?

[faksta]

Uh...sorry for such a long response. No, the surname was not Legrand.

[oko94]

Jean Louvin ?

[faksta]

Not Louvin either

[Oguerrerob]

Jean Letourneur?

[Oguerrerob]

 

[faksta]

Neither 

[oko94]

May we have a hint ? If we suggest every French surname starting with L it may take a while.