| SPAIN.
Thermal ATM issues 2OO3 |
T80
(88) |
Vintage
cars (7).
AMILCAR
- 1927. Museo Historia Automocion - Salamanca |
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Date
of issue :
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July 2003 (1st.
date : 1.07.03 / Phil. Serv. 13.10.03) |
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47 x 27 mm.
- Format type 4 |
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Paper
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Thermal phosphorescent
self adhesive |
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process : |
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Offset 4 colours, Pantone
541, invisible ink |
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Imprint
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Thermal on
black |
| Imprint
varieties : |
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5 (Epelsa
5 and 4 digits small and large, Epelsa LF) |
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0,01
€ to 99,99 € / Set Ph.S.: 0,26-0,51-0,76 € |
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Design
and printer :
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SIGNE, S.A. |
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Printing
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| Click
on the image to enlarge it |
First ATM paper developed
and manufactured by the Madrilenian company SIGNE, S.A..
The ATM series about
vintage cars initiated in 2001 is retaken in 2003-2004
with 6 new ATM issues from vehicles exposed in the Museo de
Historia de la Automocion de Salamanca.
The first ATM design
of this new group it's dedicated to the French mark Amilcar and
one of his more well known models, the CGSS of 1927.
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The
French Emile Akar and Joseph Lamy founded the society of
the Cycle cars Amilcar on 1921; the name comes from the phonetic
contraction of its two names, Lamy and Akar.
The first Amilcar
vehicle, designed by Edmond Moyet, was the CC (Cycle Car),
a model of two seats and motor of 4 cylinders in line and 904 cm3 (6 CV).
This first vehicle was available in sport version "CS" and also
for families "C4" (for 4 people).
But the most famous of all
them was the model CGS (Grand Sport) of 1924, with a 1074
cm3 motor and brakes in the four wheels, that it still evolved until a
more sport version with the CGSS (of Sport Grand Surbaisée),
the subject for this current ATM issue.
AMILCAR model CGSS
(1927) |
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Other models with different
engines, mainly small cars, were made by the company Amilcar in
the following years; M, M2, M3, M4, C8...
The production became paralysed
with World War II and no longer it was retaken never more.
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The ATM
show the image of a vintage car in the Museo de Historia de la Automocion
de Salamanca (MHAS). |
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