SHORT GREY-HAIRED MAN WEARING glasses and a jacket over a crimson jumper grabs a notebook with a hard, cracked cover from a rack. “Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus – Procès-Verbaux des Assemblées Générales – 1904-1923” says the hand-written note pasted on top.
This is a collection of (also hand-written) reports from the very first general meetings of the International Association of Recognised Automobile Clubs, which is now known as Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile – or, simply, the FIA. There’s a note on the first page, dated 20 June 1904, with a list of its founding members – a dozen clubs from various European countries. Over the past 120 years
