Diffusion Of The Automobile

Delinquency


Because the car quickly became a luxury item, it attracts lust. In France, the first car is stolen the baron Zulian, Peugeot, stored in his garage. But beyond flights, car becomes truly a way for criminals to escape quickly and efficiently from their place of mischief. The most explicit is the Bonnot Gang, the first group to use the car as a "tool of crime." Moreover, in 1907, in response to this new crime, Georges Clemenceau creates regional brigades Mobile Police, nicknamed "Tiger Brigades" refers to the nickname Clemenceau.

Other famous figures are thus inseparable from the car. The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde, famous robbers of the 1930, would not be what it is without the car. They are killed in their car, shot during a chase with police. History remembers also that of Al Capone and his 85 Cadillac Town Sedan, powered by a 90 hp V8 engine can reach a top speed of 130 km / h. Shielded and very well equipped in terms of safety, the car will be used, after the arrest of Al Capone to transport the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.