American Friends of the Bugatti Trust
Updated: 7 February 2008
Supporters of the Trust based in USA may be pleased to note that The American Friends of the Bugatti Trust, Inc. was established as a public charity in 2004.

Anyone who has followed the fortunes of the Bugatti Trust and visited the Study Centre will be aware of the importance the Trustees attach to the maintenance and improvement of links throughout the international community.

So with that in mind, supported of the Trust based in the USA may be pleased to note, therefore, that during 2004 The American Friends of the Bugatti Trust, Inc. was established as a public charity.

On July 14, 2004 the Articles of Association were filed with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and on November 10 it s application for federal tax exempt status under Section 501 (c) (3) was granted by the Internal Revenue Service.

President and Treasurer of the American Friends of the Bugatti Trust is Bill Leith who is also a Director of the Bugatti Trust in the UK. He would be delighted to discuss the immediate objectives of the American Friends with anyone wishing to contact him. Bill Leith was previously the President of the American Bugatti Club.

The Bugatti Trust Study Centre contains one of the World’s most important collections of Material on the work of Ettore Bugatti. An important role for the Centre is to make its documents available for serious study by students of design and technology, authors and journalists. By promoting the work so Ettore Bugatti the Trust strives to raise the awareness of students to the importance of aesthetics and integrated design in engineering.

It is with the help of the American Friends that we are bringing to a worldwide audience the photographic archive that we hold here in the Study Centre. We are working towards having all of our photograph albums on the internet in the not too distant future. Click here for the photo gallery