Nouvelles des ports

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor

Rafiots et compagnies

aquarelle marine cargo au mouillage - marine watercolor cargo ship at anchor

Nouvelles des escales

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor

information from Bignole

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29  July 30, 2025  ..

There is no age to get checked



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Sabine Michalek maire dEinbeck Allemagne 02

With your horse and cart, it's zero tax

Germany's oldest car still passes the MOT... The vehicle has already 131 years old, because it was sold in 1894 by Carl Benz (1844-1929) personally to a businessman from Baden-Württemberg under the number 99... "Vicky" has only candles in its headlights, so it is only allowed to drive during the day... (bild.de - machine translation)

The Benz Victoria

A photo of the "French cousin", driven by its owner Monsieur Emile Roger, during the famous race Paris-Rouen in 1894, the horseless carriage race... It will never work!!!


Roger-Benz and EmileRoger       Emile Roger     The illustrated supplement of the daily newspaper "Le Petit Journal" published on August 6, 1894, with a color illustration of a scene from the race, car number 27, a 2-seater Peugeot driven by Louis Rigoulot, on the cover.

National Automobile Museum         The PS-Speicher Museum, "the largest Oldtimer museum in Europe" in Lower-Saxe

The tax horse and its history            The horse tax            Technical inspection Germany         Technical control France

Technical inspection for old cars - A 98-year-old 1927 Citroën passes its technical inspection, near Caen... A Citroën type B14
1927 Torpedo, ah, the young one, according to Victoria... The technical inspection is adapted to the age of the car: "it's limited, it's just a visual inspection," explains Jean-Marie, the technician who carries out the inspection. "We check the play, the cables, the body, the chassis, the tires, and the lighting.
Our test benches aren't suitable, we're not going to break the cars," he continues...


The Citroën B14. The Bignole of yesteryear will have time to discover it

Classic Vehicle: What are the technical inspection rules?

Citroën Ad

The official automotive vocabulary with the list of adopted terms, expressions, and definitions) and their English equivalents. With two exceptions, there's German: "Oldtimer" and "Youngtimer," that's real. "Teutonic"






Jean Pierre Thiot mayor of Lhuisserie -53-



Éric Piolle mais de Grenoble -38-

The control of "Youngtimer" in France... but that's the not-so-miscellaneous news of the 21st century.

So young, we screw them already - The bags of the children of the Sainte-Marie de L'Huisserie school searched by the gendarmerie... The children's bags were checked, nothing was found according to the Mayenne gendarmes. The Sainte-Marie nursery and elementary school is a Catholic institution, under a partnership contract with the State and under the supervision of the Diocesan Directorate of Mayenne...

Ecole Sainte-Marie

Soon, inspections in maternity wards. And later... a check and search of the Politoques' bags to set an example?

July 29, 2025