Voiture Brûlé et avant-train Ponsard, Translation – La Locomotion Automobile – 14 July 1898
The French company Brûlé et Cie originally made front-drive tractors. After encountering many complaints, it looks that they took that front-drive unit, making it a single and universal unit. Now this could be mounted under every thinkable vehicle. This front-drive unit consisted of a rotatable frame with a three-cylinder Roser-Mazurier engine, an open transmission, but […]
Voiture Brûlé et avant-train Ponsard – La Locomotion Automobile – 14 July 1898
The French company Brûlé et Cie originally made front-drive tractors. After encountering many complaints, it looks that they took that front-drive unit, making it a single and universal unit. Now this could be mounted under every thinkable vehicle. This front-drive unit consisted of a rotatable frame with a three-cylinder Roser-Mazurier engine, an open transmission, but […]
La Voiturette „Victoria Combination“ – Cycle & Automobile – 24 June 1900
The French Société Parisienne came up in the end of 1899 with this vehicle, powered by a one-cylinder DeDion-Bouton engine. The engine, the transverse two-speed gearbox and the rigid front axle mounted on a frame that could pivot around the steering center line. She was called the „Victoria Combination“ and should have been manufactured in […]
La Voiturette „Victoria Combination“, Translation – Cycle & Automobile – 24 June 1900
The French Société Parisienne came up in the end of 1899 with this vehicle, powered by a one-cylinder DeDion-Bouton engine. The engine, the transverse two-speed gearbox and the rigid front axle mounted on a frame that could pivot around the steering center line. She was called the „Victoria Combination“ and should have been manufactured in […]
La Voiture Roulleau et Pilat – La Vie Automobile – 24 May 1902
This article was published in May 1902! Here, the well-known French technicalist-journalist and writer of several books on automobiles, Louis Baudry de Sainier describes the 1902 Roulleau & Pilat sans-chevaux with front-wheel drive. Mind You; I believe that this is one of the two first continental front-wheel driven cars. The Austrian Gräf & Stift was […]
La Voiture Roulleau et Pilat, Translation – La Vie Automobile – 24 May 1902
This article was published in May 1902! Here, the well-known French technicalist-journalist and writer of several books on automobiles, Louis Baudry de Sainier describes the 1902 Roulleau & Pilat sans-chevaux with front-wheel drive. Mind You; I believe that this is one of the two first continental front-wheel driven cars. The Austrian Gräf & Stift was […]
Der Kompressor-Alvis mit Vorderradantrieb – Automobil=Zeitung – 1 May 1925
The Austrian magazine „Automobil=Zeitung“ published this article on the 1.5 liter supercharged front-wheel drive Alvis. With this car, the idea also was applied that it be better pulling the car than pushing it; so as to improve on curve stability. As the propshaft failed, the driver could be seated very low. In short, it looks […]
Front-Wheel Drives, are they Coming or Going? Part III – SAE Journal – September 1928
This September 1928 issue of the Journal of the SAE, deals with the up-to-then status of front wheel drive. In all, this very lenghty article comprises of no less that 25 pages, inclusive photograhs. All aspects are discussed; davantages and disadvantages are listed and compared. Almost all known front wheel drives in the US and […]
Front-Wheel Drives, are they Coming or Going? Part IV – SAE Journal – September 1928
This September 1928 issue of the Journal of the SAE, deals with the up-to-then status of front wheel drive. In all, this very lenghty article comprises of no less that 25 pages, inclusive photograhs. All aspects are discussed; davantages and disadvantages are listed and compared. Almost all known front wheel drives in the US and […]
Front-Wheel Drives, are they Coming or Going? Part II – SAE Journal – September 1928
This September 1928 issue of the Journal of the SAE, deals with the up-to-then status of front wheel drive. In all, this very lenghty article comprises of no less that 25 pages, inclusive photograhs. All aspects are discussed; davantages and disadvantages are listed and compared. Almost all known front wheel drives in the US and […]