Bernd Rosemeyer and Ferdinand Porsche with Auto Union Finish:Float frame 4th February 1969

4th February 1969

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View of a tea garden showing people playing bat

the future King Edward VII

Bernd Rosemeyer and Ferdinand Porsche with Auto Union Finish:Float frame 4th February 1969Bernd Rosemeyer and Ferdinand Porsche with Auto Union, c1937 c1938. This streamlined vehicle designed by Porsche was driven by Bernd Rosemeyer to set several world speed records for cars of engine capacities of less than 8000cc in 1937. He was killed in 1938 when, attempting to regain the record from Mercedes, his Auto Union crashed on the Frankfurt Darmstadt Autobahn at 270 mph. Rosemeyer was also a prolifically successful racing driver, winning the