Let's Talk Cyclecars

I remember seeing that car, looks like the venue is the national A7 rally at Beaulieu. From chatting to the owner there , one issue was the sorting the gearing to work with the relatively low peak RPM of the Aero motor.
BTW, the same talented chap built this car some years earlier, had very pretty bodywork and a blown Austin Seven engine.

 

It's just amazing how many barn finds are showing up these days. I suppose a generation is dying off and the kids are clearing out the property.

 

... looks more like a bog find

 

View attachment 3486090 View attachment 3486091 2 very fine images of the OX5 powered GN from Rhiannon Carvell-Crook.

 

GN

 

Home-made cyclecar, France, 1936.

 

Is that an Indian 4 under the hood? Nice Dodge in the background as well!

 

http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/previous-features/david-and-the-three-girls-031854.html

 

Lombard from the 1927 Paris Salon:

 

Robert Stewart images.

 

Kevin Warner image

 

1926 Morgan Aero,9bhp,MAG engine,2 speed transmission.Anibal Martinez images

 

Youngsters trialing their grandmother's GN.Andy Cawley image.

 

It's funny how our lot like just the suggestion of something behind an old door.

 

This is the only surviving picture of the Schwammberger, built in 1950 by A.W. Mantzel, the editor of Das Auto. The front wheels are fixed and the rear wheel-drivetrain assembly turns nearly 360°, so there is no reverse. The only writeup I could find was in German, and said at one point that the axles were rigid, but in another place said that torsion bars were used front & rear. Only one was built. Schwammberg is a mountain in the Black Forest, which the car almost certainly couldn't climb...

 

Interesting concept of the rear wheel steering. From time driving forklifts my experience is that it tends to be on the squirrely side.

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Yes Tom, and if you get tight up against a wall, it's difficult to move away from it without dragging the counterweight, or forks into the wall. Side shifter helps- but-- Also wonder if you had to keep track of how many times, and which way you spun the Schwammberger rear wheel to keep from twisting the controls off.

I think that I'll pass on that one.

Herb

 

Salmson from Russell Yaxley.

 

Perfect!

 

2 more from the Welsh Trials from Gas balloon and James Wood.

 

Here's a Morgan publicity shot from the mid twenties. Its not as highly polished as an auto show chassis, so it was probably intended for publication in a British magazine alongside a drive test. I don't recognize the engine, though.

 

This chassis was never intended for the show stand ,rather it was built for the race track.see post #5253. It went more than 100 mph at Brooklands. Built by Harold Breats with factory support. SR100 the engine is a Blackburne.

 

Morgan Motor Co. image. ...

 

2 from Marc!

 

H.F.S. Morgan and the 1934 Morgan Racing Team at Brooklands. Morgan Co. image...

 

Peugot Quadrillete

 

.....Barney The Buzzard is back!



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