Owners manual for the Bugatti Baby

This is a four page manual for the 1927 Bugatti Baby showing technical details as well as the electrical schematic. Being used to the thousand page (plus) shop manuals of today, I'm not sure if this would count also as the shop manual.

After the Type 52 was introduced and was winning races, Ettore Bugatti decided to make a half scale electric version of the very similar Type 35 for his second son Roland. Everyone likes a miniature, the response was overwhelming, so the company put them into production and about 500 were sold. Like the full size cars, they were expensive and most were sold to royalty or the rich and famous.

Family album picture: Jean Bugatti in a Type 43 with brother Roland in the Baby. Sculptures in the windows behind by uncle Rembrandt Bugatti.

The young King Hassan being presented with his car.

Apparently only about a hundred remain and they turn up occasionally at auctions, bringing wildly varying prices. The current record is $110,000 US- enough that the modern Bugatti Company has seen an opportunity and introduced a 3/4 scale, lithium battery-powered replica in case your kid needs a $33,000 toy. Tula Precision has been making their version for 40 years.   Even the ephemera brings big money, the single page flyer below is an example.

The two page double sided owners manual at the lead of the post is available for less than the single page item above. Contact me at gerald@vanwyngaarden.ca and I can put you in contact with the seller.
I found this image somewhere on the net... no explanation but apparently Bugatti wasn't the only company in the miniature car business...