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The end of Musée Impéria Nessonvaux
Last month, parts of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium experienced terrible weather. Rivers quickly overflowed, causing much damage and several people were killed. A terrible time for everyone.
We also received bad news on the car front. The Musée Impéria Nessonvaux was up to one and a half metres under water and the building has partly collapsed; cars were badly damaged, showcases were taken away by the water and all the doors are gone. It is now dangerous to enter the building. This means the end of the museum and their collection of cars. Our editor visited the old Impéria factory a couple of years ago, read more here.
The cars are to go back to their owners and will most likely be restored. Sadly, the collection of books, leaflets, drawings etc. of the Belgian Impéria brand have all been lost.
We wish all concerned the very best and hope to see the cars again in the future.
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dinsdag augustus 24th, 2021
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Marco Makaus
29 Augustus 2021, 19:40
A week later, we had some hard times here on Lake Como too.
Luckily no casualties - but I had one and a half metre of water and mud in my garage too: four cars and two motorcycles damaged, and my 40 year paper archive lost. Brochures, Motor Show press kits, complete runs of many motoring magazines, my collection of vintage road maps, my old LPs… all gone and then some more.
Everything my wife wanted me to throw away thirty, twenty, ten years ago… in the end she is always right!
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Luckily no casualties - but I had one and a half metre of water and mud in my garage too: four cars and two motorcycles damaged, and my 40 year paper archive lost. Brochures, Motor Show press kits, complete runs of many motoring magazines, my collection of vintage road maps, my old LPs… all gone and then some more.
Everything my wife wanted me to throw away thirty, twenty, ten years ago… in the end she is always right!
AFP
25 Augustus 2021, 15:37
There is a terrible picture from the outside that shows the disaster... :(
© Michel Gretry (Publié le samedi 14 août 2021 à 12h26 a rtbf.be)
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© Michel Gretry (Publié le samedi 14 août 2021 à 12h26 a rtbf.be)
Ian Berg
24 Augustus 2021, 11:28
It is very sad to hear of the demise of the Imperia Museum in Nessonvaux.
The Springuel-Imperia story is a fascinating one, and prior to the Great War, as a manufacturer and in motor racing, it was a highly successful organisation. However, the business was decimated by the German invasion in August of 1914.
Up to that time, there was one Australian motor agent, Jas A Munro & Co, selling Springuel and Imperia, amongst the range of European and English makes which also included Clement-Bayard, SCAT and Crossley. Munro produced some exceptional coachwork on Imperia chassis which were imported with the assistance of his brother who was living in Paris.
Pictured are examples of Munro coachwork as well as a chassis being exported and his works in Melbourne. You can find some more information on my website ianberg.org and in my recently released book 'Jas A Munro & Co: The Largest Garage in Melbourne'.
The company restarted after the war, but it was a different organisation, no longer under the management of Jules Springuel, and Munro no longer imported the make.
Kind regards. Ian Berg
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The Springuel-Imperia story is a fascinating one, and prior to the Great War, as a manufacturer and in motor racing, it was a highly successful organisation. However, the business was decimated by the German invasion in August of 1914.
Up to that time, there was one Australian motor agent, Jas A Munro & Co, selling Springuel and Imperia, amongst the range of European and English makes which also included Clement-Bayard, SCAT and Crossley. Munro produced some exceptional coachwork on Imperia chassis which were imported with the assistance of his brother who was living in Paris.
Pictured are examples of Munro coachwork as well as a chassis being exported and his works in Melbourne. You can find some more information on my website ianberg.org and in my recently released book 'Jas A Munro & Co: The Largest Garage in Melbourne'.
The company restarted after the war, but it was a different organisation, no longer under the management of Jules Springuel, and Munro no longer imported the make.
Kind regards. Ian Berg
Hubertus Hansmann
24 Augustus 2021, 07:14
So sad to hear those terrible news about the small but so nice museum in Trooz, a village next to Nessonvaux, where the famous Imperia cars were built. The museum was in an idyllic location right on the banks of the small river Vesdre, which unfortunately now became its undoing.
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