Mitchell Reel Museum Discussion Group

Hello,

In 1992, Mitchell made a video K7 "THE MITCHELL UNIVERSE". On this K7 the images of the factory are those of the 1990s, the reels shown are also of these years. On the other hand very beautiful pictures of the valley of the Arve (Cluses and the bridge, etc.).
In this film we see for a few seconds a Mitchell truck with a "small Mitchell 300 reel". Also note the name Carpano & Pons on the door
I made a stop on the image and took a picture of this truck.
Attached the photo, I think this truck was part of the advertising caravan of a bicycle race, in my opinion the "Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré", run in this region.
Average photo quality, but readable

Hello Laroupane and James.

Great photo - That VW Bus would make an awesome addition to the Mitchell collection ( I don't think my wife would agree though - especially after shipping from Europe)! Thanks for sharing.

Regards,
Chris

Hey Laroupane,

Thank you for this fascinating post.

The image above is a snapshot (frame capture) from a video file. Then I did a little photo-editing of the still.

The topic of Mitchell trucks has come up on the MRM Forum with some other vehicles. JPC provided a picture (inserted below) from the book, Moulinets de la vallée de L'Arve.
http://www.mitchellreelmuseum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=3728&p=13414&hilit=mitchell+truck&sid=db83b920bad20ab3caeb68f6a8ea97ee&sid=db83b920bad20ab3caeb68f6a8ea97ee#p13414

OMG It’s a convoy of Mitchell trucks! Does anyone have more information and/or pictures?

John

Hello John

In the book published in 2012 where JPC found the picture, the Mitchell part is very small.
Voluntarily, the author of this book, a long-time French collector friend, has limited the pages on MItchell, for which are already publications.
The two pages devoted to Mitchell are a brief presentation of Mitchell's story. I made these two pages in 2009, and the author asked me permission to publish them in his book. I replied positively on condition that he deleted my signature.
I attach a scan of these two pages.
Regarding trucks, the last is in my opinion a bus. Ets Carpano and Pons went to pick up the distant workers to Alberville with his coaches (bus?). Before the buses, it was with sheeted trucks
They also had a social policy in advance for the time, higher hourly rates, bonus, canteen, cooperative ...
I found this information in various publications on Mitchell, the photo of a 1993 publication.
Also attached another photo of trucks.