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Aston Martin V8 Vantage Shooting Brake, GB/CH 1999The world’s fastest and most powerful estate carIn 1964, the British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin built its first estate car at the behest of the company owner so as finally to allow the family dog to travel in comfort and customary style. That’s why in this instance a sporty estate was developed from an exclusive sports car.The two Swiss companies Dante Rubli and Roos not only enhanced the chassis, but also fine tuned the engine and optimised the construction. The design stands apart from conventional sport cars lines and everyday family estate. The result – an independent shape, a car in the sporty luxury class: the fastest estate in the world.
  • Aston Martin V8 Vantage Shooting Brake, GB/CH 1999
    The world’s fastest and most powerful ...
  • Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd (1976), Manufacturer, archivalisch belegt
    Roos Engineering LTD (1976), Engine manufacturer, archivalisch belegt
    Design by Dante (1976), Designer/in, Carrossier, archivalisch belegt
  • Inv. Nr. VHS-7621
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The magneto-inductive cable testThe cable is the most important structural element of the aerial railway. The travelling through the running gear, over rollers, round pinions and steering wheels, at a constant high tension, and the influence of the weather subject the cables to a perpetual wear and tear. For this reason they have to be periodically examined for possible damage.The wirebreak is the most frequent cable damage. Others are notches, pressure points, tears, corrosion and parts affected by lightning. Damage can be on the surface of the cable as well in the interior parts.Damaged cable = weakened cableGovernement regulations require therefore a periodic magneto-inductive cable test.In this disturbance-free method of examination the cable is locally magnetized and the differentiated formed magnetic field is abstracted by inductance. The electrical tensions arising thereby are visually recorded as a continuous diagram.
  • The magneto-inductive cable test
    The cable is the most important structural element of the ...
  • Ernst Kündig AG (1962), Manufacturer, archivalisch belegt
  • Inv. Nr. VHS-9108
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Hans Erni (1909-2015)Picture panel for the UNESCO exhibition, Zurich 1949Hans Erni-Stiftung, Luzern, Depositum der Kunstsammlung des BundesA few months after the end of the Second World War, UNESCO was founded in London in November 1945 as a sub-organisation of the UN. Its objectives can be seen in its full name, "United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization", of which "UNESCO" is an abbreviated form reduced to the initial letters: To this day, the organisation is dedicated to the promotion of education, science and culture, as well as to mutual exchange among representatives of these fields, but also lay people from different countries. Still under the impression of the devastating war, one of UNESCO's overriding goals was to prevent future armed conflicts by promoting international communication.In 1949, Switzerland also joined this organisation, which was immediately celebrated at the end of August of that year by an exhibition in the Zurich Kongresshaus. The exhibition was also intended to inform the Swiss population about the aims and possibilities of this organisation and to encourage them to participate, which is why it was connected to the popular radio exhibition taking place at the same time.Central pieces of the exhibition, conceived and designed by the Zurich artist and designer Gottfried Honegger (1971-2016), were 13 picture panels by the Lucerne artist Hans Erni, who had achieved national fame a few years earlier with the monumental mural "Switzerland, the holiday land of nations" at the tourism pavilion of the 1939 Zurich National Exhibition.In Erni's virtuoso drawing style, the panels show motifs that can be loosely identified with UNESCO's fields of activity: A reading couple may be taken to indicate education, a head next to organ forms may signify science, while the multitude of faces - also found on the present panel - may stand for peacemaking communication. The panels are thus an early example of Hans Erni's lifelong endeavour to use his works to present complex issues in a visually appealing form. The panels were received very controversially: While some commentaries in the press praised their freshness and modernity, the conservative press in particular rejected the panels outright, whereby Erni's reputation as an "extreme leftist" artist in the Switzerland of the beginning Cold War may have played a role.After the exhibition, the panels disappeared and led a shadowy existence in a public depot for decades. They were recently restored on behalf of the Federal Art Collection and handed over on permanent loan to the Hans Erni Foundation, in whose museum they will be on public display again for the first time in decades.
  • Hans Erni (1909-2015)
    Picture panel for the UNESCO exhibition, Zurich 1949
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  • Erni Hans (Pseudonym François Grèques) (1909 - 2015)
  • Inv. Nr. HEM-424
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