About competition # 115

It's not a prewar Formula 1 chassis you are looking at. It's the chassis of the first "plastic" car in the world. (the red DKW of # 115)"Plastic" has been around longer than most people realise. First commercial use was by John Wesley Hyatt way back during the time of Lenoir (1868 -celluloid). The first automotive use of celluloid started around 1905 for e.g. side curtains of early motor-carriages. Oldsmobile introduced a celluloid frontscreen in 1907. Two years later saw the introduction of bakelite (Phenol-formaldehyde resin) for ---->>> see Read More (photo & information provided by Hans Compter Rare Cars

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