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===World War I and its aftermath=== [[File:Bugatti Typ 13 Brescia Sport-Racing 1922.jpg|thumb|Bugatti Type 13 Brescia Sport-Racing, 1922|alt=]] [[File:B.M.W. (Förenade bil) Skåne - Nordiska museet - NMAx.0030583.tif|thumb|A Bugatti Type 40 coupe in Sweden in 1967.|alt=A historical image from 1967 of a black Bugatti Type 40 coupe with bright yellow doors. The car is parked next to the road, surrounded by fields of barley and trees. There is no driver in the car.]] During the [[First World War|war]] Ettore Bugatti was sent away, initially to Milan and later to Paris, but as soon as hostilities had been concluded he returned to his factory at Molsheim.<ref name=Automobilia1920>{{cite journal|title=Automobilia|journal=Toutes les voitures françaises 1920 (Salon [Oct] 1919)|volume=31|pages=63|year=2004|publisher=Histoire & collections|location=Paris}}</ref> Less than four months after the [[Treaty of Versailles (1919)|Versailles Treaty]] formalised the transfer of Alsace from Germany to France, Bugatti was able to obtain, at the last minute, a stand at the [[Paris Motor Show|15th Paris motor show]] in October 1919.<ref name=Automobilia1920/> He exhibited three light cars, all of them closely based on their pre-war equivalents, and each fitted with the same [[Overhead camshaft engine|overhead camshaft]] 4-cylinder 1,368cc engine with four valves per cylinder.<ref name=Automobilia1920/> Smallest of the three was a "[[Bugatti Type 13|Type 13]]" with a racing body (constructed by the Bugatti themselves) and using a chassis with a {{convert|2000|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} wheelbase.<ref name=Automobilia1920/> The others were a "[[Bugatti Type 13#Type 22|Type 22]]" and a "[[Bugatti Type 13#Type 23|Type 23]]" with wheelbases of {{convert|2250|and|2400|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} respectively.<ref name=Automobilia1920/>
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