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► CAR HISTORY > ARTICLESBritish cars history: from "Lanchester" to "Rolls-Royce"
That "Rolls-Royce" became the most magnificent car of that time was remarkable, simultaneously keeping the sports vein. It partially spoke that its balanced proportions excluded awkwardness, and also sports successes "Rolls-Royce" on Alpine events 1913. Not Casually British armed forces in the First World War have preferred the chassis "Silver Ghost" as base for armour cars. Not many high quality cars could brag of similar universality. It is natural, that the model "Silver Ghost" had competitors. The basic among them - French "Delaunay-Belleville" - the favourite car of the Russian tsar. "Delaunay-Belleville" represented magnificent model of the firm initially specialising on manufacture of steam-engines (coppers "Delaunay" have been installed on a yacht of last Russian tsar "the Queen Victoria"), and has been advertised as "majestic". Since 1908 the company began to exhaust rather perfect cars with six-cylinder engines which had very strong bent shafts. The same company one of the first has applied an engine lubricating system under pressure. Factory "Maudslay" from Koverni was one more of manufacturers of cars in England, which has made to itself a name on release of ship engines before to be engaged in automotive industry. In 1913 in all voice the firm from Coventry, become to the most known on British isles (the future manufacturer of sports models "Jaguar") has declared itself. PREVIOUS PAGE 1 2 3 |
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In
the end of XIX century automotive industry development moved slowly
and slowly: with modern it made related unless an internal
combustion engine.
Rudolf
Dizel - the few know, who this person. However popularity of his
invention which cannot be overestimated, grows every day. The diesel
engine use both motorists, and railwaymen, and seamen. 
It
is difficult to find an automobile forum in which dispute on the
right and left wheel did not inflame. Division into the right and
left parties of movement has begun even before occurrence of the
first car. 
The
XX-th century beginning is marked in world history by a car industry
birth. The end of 30th years of last century associates, as a rule,
with Germany, Adolf Hitler and the war beginning in Europe.
While
in Germany Benz worried crisis, and the Daimler, despite of
everything, aspired to perfection of the models, France has accepted
relay race of the technical initiative. The firm "Panhard et
Levassor" which first specialised on release of tape saws and
processing machine tools was the strongest.