70^th anniversary 
100,000^th car special edition

On June 24^th, 1997, Reverchon celebrates its 100,000^th bumper car, 300 guests were present as well as the two generations of Reverchons with their 100,000^th silver FURYO car.

Philippe and Michel Reverchon

70 years ago 

On May 8^th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh left New York alone and crossed the Atlantic
    Fantastic! Charles Lindbergh, an audacious American who had already crossed the new world from the East coast to the West coast has just successfully completed a non-stop transatlantic crossing in an aeroplane. This courageous and intrepid pilot has already had to jump four times with a parachute! He fitted a 220 h.p. Wright radial engine to a Ryan monoplane with the help of the citizens of Saint Louis, his home town. He left New York on Friday, taking no heed of the poor weather conditions and followed closely by other rivals in the achievement, Chamberlin and Byrd. Destination Paris, with only himself on board! At ten to one this morning, Saturday, he flew over Newfoundland and at 5.20 p.m., Ireland. At 7 p.m., all of Paris was holding its breath ; there was a chance that he would succeed! At 8.30 p.m., he was sighted above Cherbourg.
     The Le Bourget airfield was invaded by some 300,000 people, who had come in cars, on bicycles and even on foot! The enthusiasm reached fever pitch ... and at 10.22 p.m., the little aeroplane landed.
     Lindbergh successfully achieved the crossing in 33 hours and 29 minutes!

May 6^th, 1927, the beginnings of a prodigy: Yehudi Menuhin
    Fifteen hundred spectators crowded into the Salle Gaveau hall at Paris to hear this new “Product” of the United States: a ten year old child who plays the violin like a bird that sings. He created a sensation as soon as he entered.
    Yehudi Menuhin indeed seems to be carried by the music. He played Lalo’s Spanish Symphony with prodigious rhythmic brilliance. When he was only a year and a half old, he was already a keen music listener. At three years old, he asked if he could learn the violin, and at ten years old he is offered 5,000 dollars per concert.
    An exceptional career is promised for this child from a Russian background.

October 23^rd, 1927, the first talking film
    One of the great moments in cinema has just occurred: the first one hundred percent talking and singing film was shown in the United States by the Warner brothers. It was called Jazz Singer, featuring Al Johnson, a former church singer, circus and music hall artist, impresario and subsequently entertainer, and Miriam Loy. This film, which has set the entire United States talking, tells a little of the life of Al Johnson, born at St Petersburg on May 28th, 1883. His first words in the film were “Hello Mam!”
    It was a complete success technically. With sound, conversation and singing, this film, which was produced by Alan Crosland, responsible for a musical version of Don Juan that did not have any talking in it, proves that silent films are a thing of the past.

November 18^th, 1927, the creation of a football world cup
    Last year, the chairman of the international football federation, the Frenchman Jules Rimet, obtained from his executive committee the creation of a commission to study and organise at last this football world cup that has been talked about for so many years.
    This commission has just held a meeting, and decided to submit a project to FIFA for a great world-wide competition held every four years and open to the national selections of all FIFA-affiliated countries.

December 1927, the C6, the latest inside drive presented by Citroën.

September 10^th, 1927, the Musketeers win the Davis cup
    Justice has been done in the tennis world. The french Musketeers have at last won the Davis cup. This latest triumph was even accomplished on the soil of their American adversaries, at Philadelphia, where the French were beaten twice, in 1925 and 1926, and thus rewarding the talent and willpower of a marvellous team. Following an initial victory by Lacoste over Johnson, the Americans took the advantage thanks to Tilden, winner of the singles match against Cochet, then the doubles. However Lacoste, the magnificent victor over Tilden evened things up.
    It was Henri Cochet, the Wimbledon winner, who had the honour of final victory by beating Johnson.