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The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat. The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. [1]
The Last Dymaxion: Buckminster Fuller’s Dream Restored is a 2012 documentary film directed by Noel Murphy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] about Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car as well as Fuller himself.
The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat. The Dymaxion car was a vehicle designed by Fuller, featured prominently at Chicago's 1933-1934 Century of Progress World's Fair. [60] During the Great Depression, Fuller formed the Dymaxion Corporation and built three prototypes with noted naval architect ...
Dymaxion is a term coined by architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and associated with much of his work, prominently his Dymaxion house and Dymaxion car. A portmanteau of the words dynamic , maximum , and tension , [ 1 ] Dymaxion sums up the goal of his study, "maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input".
[3] [4] The Fiat Balilla of the mid-1930s, by contrast, was rated at 0.60. [5] To enable the car's aerodynamic shape, the Tropfenwagen also featured the world's first (single plane) curved windows in a production car. Both the windscreen and the side windows were significantly curved. [6] But Rumpler wasn't the first with the idea of a ...
The article claims that the Dymaxion used a Ford V8 engine, but the link appears to be busted and in a documentary I just watched which mentions the car ("Ecological Design -Inventing the Future"), they claim that the car ran on what was essentially the equivalent of a lawnmower motor.
In the 1920s and early 1930s standardised bodies were built for Sunbeam and Talbot along with individual commissions often on Bentley and Rolls-Royce chassis. James Young Limited joined the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in 1922 and first set up their own stand at the SMMT's 1925 London Motor Show at Olympia . [ 1 ]
The Lagonda 14/60 is a sports touring car that was introduced by Lagonda in 1925. Production of the 14/60 continued until 1931. Production of the 14/60 continued until 1931. As well as the standard car there were variants called the 2 Litre Speed (1927–33) and Continental (1932 only).