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Single-cylinder, two-stroke 269 cc The Harper Runabout is a three-wheeled motor vehicle designed by Robert Harper. It was manufactured in Manchester , England, by A.V. Roe & Co. from 1921 until 1926, by which time about 500 Harpers had been produced.
Bean Cars was a brand of motor vehicles made in England by A Harper Sons & Bean, Ltd at factories in Dudley, Worcestershire, and Coseley, Staffordshire. The company began making cars in 1919 and diversified into light commercial vehicles in 1924. For a few years in the early 1920s Bean outsold Austin and Morris. [1]
A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933. The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer, [1] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island, [1] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. [2] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t strong ...
A 1960 catalog showed two models of lightweight utility railroad motor cars, used for patrol cars, inspection and section use. The 56W used an air-cooled Wisconsin 4 cycle 2-cylinder motor, rated at 16.4 horsepower (12.2 kW). Transmission was a synchromesh gearbox with two forward speeds and two reverse. A roller chain connected the ...
Volvo produced trucks as White and Autocar through the 1980s, while Western Star continued independently in Canada and the United States, although Volvo-White–produced high cab over engine models were purchased and rebadged Western Star for sale in the Canadian market through the early 1990s.
The medium-duty 1930 A-series trucks received the all-new 278.7 cu in (4.6 L) FB-3 six-cylinder engine, with overhead valves and seven main bearings. This was complemented by larger versions of the same engine and was built until late 1940 (as the FBB), [ 7 ] the line-up being expanded downward by the smaller FA-series (later FAB) in 1933.
In 1910, Pierce dropped its other 4-cylinder models and focused exclusively on 6-cylinder cars until 1929. The model 6-36, 6-48, and 6-66 continued for the next decade. [ 8 ] Starting in 1918, Pierce-Arrow adopted a four-valve per cylinder T-head inline-six engine (Dual Valve Six) and three spark plugs per cylinder, one of the few, if only ...
Light passenger vehicles pump up to about 50 litres (13 US gallons) per minute [8] (the United States limits this to 10 US gallons [38 litres] per minute [9]); pumps serving trucks and other large vehicles have a higher flow rate, up to 130 litres (34 US gallons) per minute in the UK [8] and 40 US gallons (150 litres) in the US. This flow rate ...