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The 23rd International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis ... The driver deaths in 1935 caused the Speedway to develop what is now known as the ...
On 7 March 1935 Campbell improved his record to 276.82 miles per hour (445.50 km/h), but the unevenness of the sand caused a loss of grip and he knew the car was capable of more. [ 11 ] The faster car needed a bigger and smoother arena, and this led to the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah .
The Morris Eight is a small family car produced by Morris Motors from 1935 to 1948. It was inspired by the sales popularity of the Ford Model Y , styling of which the Eight closely followed. [ 1 ] The success of the car enabled Morris to regain its position as Britain's largest motor manufacturer.
The name International was first used by Norton both for its newly designed race bikes and also for the TT replica sports roadster in 1932. Overseen by Joe Craig, Arthur Carroll had designed an overhead-camshaft engine for the works racers and although it retained the 79 mm × 100 mm (3.1 in × 3.9 in) bore and stroke of the Norton CS1 the Model 30 International was all new.
The Duesenberg Special was a one-off speed record car. [4] It was built in 1935 on a supercharged Duesenberg Model J rolling chassis with a standard wheelbase [4] of 142.5 in (3,620 mm), [6] [3] a dropped front axle, [1] [3] 18 in (457 mm) wheels instead of the standard 19 in (483 mm) wheels, and a non-standard 3:1 rear axle ratio. [1]
The 1933-36 Willys coupés and pickups were very popular gassers. [1] The best-known would be the 1933 Model 77. [1] Only 12,800 were sold in 1933, 13,234 in 1934, 10,644 in 1935 (including a new panel delivery), and 30,825 the company's final year, making it a puzzle why it became popular: it was neither cheap nor plentiful.
Nuvolari famously won the 1935 German Grand Prix, but his Alfa Romeo was the only non-German car to win a European Championship race from 1935 to 1939. Development of the chassis and the car had allowed to increase capacity to more than 4 litre, and output of the new engine version M25C [11] was well over 400 hp. As the M25 engines became ...
[4] Anti-Semitic posters appeared in towns all over the Saarland despite a German promise to the League of Nations to not persecute Jews in the Saar for 12 months. [5] The U.S. Supreme Court decided Baldwin v. G.A.F. Seelig, Inc. Born: Bent Larsen, chess grandmaster, in Tilsted near Thisted, Denmark (d. 2010)