Louis Delâge

I mean, journalists and all.

Now, here's a look at the design and components of the desmodromic system that the guys at Delage, including Louis Delage himself, developed and used.

It was amazingly close to what Ferroa described the 1912 Peugeots to be, minus the magical roller tip camshaft that never existed in any capacity.

The 1912 Peugeots, on the other hand, were never once disassembled in front of the media or photographed in any technical form.

That's the way it was looking until 1983.

Enter a man named Stuart Murdoch of Australia.

Remember the seemingly ill-fated Delage S I had mentioned earlier, the one that actually was using a desmodromic valve train? All of those cars had disappeared, starting with Louis Delage when he parked them in the corner, then he sold them off to America where they went through the same tough business as the Peugeots had, and all of the four cars that were built were supposed to be gone.

One was destroyed in 1916, others were raced into the early 20s, and even by then most of them had engine swaps and it was more just the chassis being beat up on local dirt tracks and circle tracks.