The Kelsey Motorette from 1912 is a vehicle I wouldn't mind owning. It was the first 3 wheeler to drive across the USA, it took a rather long route and covered over 5,000 miles. Bob
Magyar Microcars, weird, but borne from necessity, as the Soviets would not allow Hungary to produce any full size autos. All pics from a great article in the Economist. http://www.economist.com/node/17722676 The Fesztival, composite body from pig's blood, chicken feathers and shellac! (seriously).
Why would this be popular in Scandinavia? This was popular in Denmark, costing Less then half of a bug. Of corse it was only half the car of a Big It could be driven as a bike, and with a huge cut down on tax and insurance. Since we only build trucks and bikes, we had to take what we could get. Not like GDR, but it was so few that could aford cars. The most people walked
Yes, the Hariss was identified and I have a ton of other photos of it as well. It is still undetermined as to what steam engine was in it.
GMC got in the game with this beauty . . . Looks like the designers at GM had a little bit of everything in this mix.
Love the headlights on this one, and to add to it's weirdness Panhards used a Knight patent sleave valve engine up to about WW2
Nimbus 4 cylinder motorcycle made in Denmark. A fellow member of the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group owned one.
That F-ing fast. I though close to no-one new what this was. The closest thing we came to comercial succes. Nothing we builds stays a float for more the 2years-ish. Accept for the assembly plantes for us products. From the model A-era, to the IH loadstar era. Was is the first or the second picture, that was the give away? The second one was produced from 1934-1954. And was a huge succes's, by danish standards at least. The first one is more rare, and wasent that Big a succes's. People called it ugly, and nicknamed it: stovepipe. But it proved it self, by endurance and a good network of sellers/autorised dealer/workshops. I'm completly baffeled that it took you less the 20min to answer my question.
Your post was up for about 15 minutes before I saw it. It only took 30 seconds to figure out the answer. My friend rode the rigid frame model. Forget the year but I thought it was from the early fifties. It was bright red. The most distinctive feature to me, is the frame made of flat steel. And then how many inline 4 cylinder bikes were there in the vintage era? I didn't even remember they were shaft drive. I thought they were a wonderful design. They must have been expensive to build, and cost a lot of money when new.
I dont know If I should be a little anoid that you dident let the tension build up, and waited for the first wrong ideer/I dunno. Or be very happy that at least one man knew what this was! The are quiet good handling bikes, dispite being rigid. Overly simple in some aspects, and was quiet advanced by its peers standard. 1934 model had; internal spring and damper front fork, OHC 750ccm 4 banger, , 3speed (non syncro/straight cut), centrifugal ignition advancer, full pressure oilling system ( later abandon, because of bad Oil quality), shaft drive and big brakes (for its era). The only chance slightly through its lifespand. Mostly tinwork, and the upgrade to and hydraulic dampend front fork and the speedo first moved out of the "handlebar", and sat on the side of the headlamp in 1949-50, and the rest of its lifespand, it sat in the headlight. We dont chance much over here, only do to surplyers went out of business, and the had to act. You could say that nimbus was as flexible as Henry Ford was on his Model T. The nimbus mostly was Black too Back to the regular show
Did a little more reading on this and the Octoauto . Turns out they were Overland automobiles bought by the Reeves company and then outfitted with the extra axles .
Valve sleeve up to the begining of the war. Steering wheel in the center for a couple of years. Long wheel base coupe or short wheel base, only one of the later still in existence, whish I could afford a cabriolet... Speaking of Panhard, the Dynavia is really odd : They even tried 3 headlights of different colors to create a white beam. 2 Dynavia were built, one got crushed.
Indian and Henderson both offered inline 4 cylinder models at some point. I'd imagine that a few other obscure makes did as well.
1939 Adler , made in Germany sure bears a resemblance to a Chrysler airflow Oh, and it's frt wheel drive
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