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| 2CV hub - reminds me of the Tintin books! |
Over Easter, you may recall, I visited the German Phonographic museum in St. Georgen. We also visited another building full of mostly old stuff - but it wasn't a museum.
We went to the Autosammlung Steim in Schramberg. This collection has been built up over the years by Dr. Ing Hans-Jochen Steim, with the express intent of being driven. And what a collection it is! Much more compact than equivalents like Sinsheim, it initially comes across as being small and stuffy - but the quality of the cars in there speaks for itself, as do the occasional tell-tale tyre marks along the otherwise pristine floors.
Definitely worth a visit, as the (again, smartphone) photos below will attest.
As an aside, Herr Dr. Ingenieur Steim was chairman of the Kern-Liebers group of companies. These make such "dull" products as springs and stampings. However, one look at the range of products they produce shows how intrepid a traditional engineering firm can be when it looks at and develops its products in the right ways: from automotive injection systems to the textile industry right the way to pacemakers and hearing aids, their products are there. And when you next desperately try to avoid the flailing cable retracting at great speed into your vacuum cleaner, you can admire the strength and consistency of Kern-Lieber springs, too!
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| 1932 Auburn Boat-tail Speedster |
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| 1963 Auto-Union SP100 Speedster |
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| 1968 McLaren Formula 2 |
