05-09-2017, 04:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2017, 04:21 PM by Nick Salmon.)
On our travels in August we came across the Dufresne museum at Azay-le-Rideau, just south-west of Tours. It is the lifelong collection of Maurice Dufresne who rescued a huge variety of machinery that otherwise would quite literally have rotted away or been destroyed. Eventually he was able to buy the former paper mill at Azay-le-Rideau and convert it into a museum to house his treasures. Well worth visiting if you are down that way. There's everything from 17th century weaving looms through cars and planes, a mobile guillotine(!), engines, water wheel, it goes on and on - in fact the walk through the buildings is 1km. It is all weird and wonderful and very well presented. Well worth a couple of hours if you are passing.
Regretably not an A7 in sight but Sir Herbert gets a look-in with this lovely tractor:
More photos from the collection: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4jDQtS
Regretably not an A7 in sight but Sir Herbert gets a look-in with this lovely tractor:
More photos from the collection: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4jDQtS