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BARREIROS, COMPLETE HISTORY

22 November 2024

“BARREIROS, HISTORIA COMPLETA”

Manuel Lage

Book co-published by the Diputación de Ourense and the Jorge Jove Foundation.

On November 16, 2024, the presentation of the book “Barreiros, Historia completa” by Manuel Lage took place at the Automotive and History Museum.

The book tells the story of Eduardo Barreiros, a renowned industrial entrepreneur born in 1919 in Ourense, Spain, who was dedicated to the manufacture of engines, automobiles, buses, trucks and tractors.

An interesting book that will help us to know all his professional trajectory as well as to discover surprising details that had not been verified before.

 

Copies of the book can be found at the Museo de Automoción e Historia.

 

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