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Car hydraulics are equipment installed in an automobile that allows for a dynamic adjustment in height of the vehicle. These suspension modifications are often placed in a lowrider , i.e., a vehicle modified to lower its ground clearance below that of its original design.
[2] A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among African American & Mexican American youth in the 1940s. [3] Lowrider also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs, which remain a part of African American Hip Hop culture & Chicano culture and have since expanded ...
The Spanish sub-secretary of weapons, with the help of Soviet engineers, started the development of a new heavy armoured vehicle in April 1937, taking the BA-6 as a reference. The most famous vehicle was the AAC-1937, which was based on the chassis of the Chevrolet SD 1937 truck from General Motors Peninsular, produced in Barcelona .
[2]: 13–15 Individual leaf thickness is specified by the Stubbs or Birmingham gauge, with typical thicknesses ranging between 0.203 to 0.375 in (5.2 to 9.5 mm) (6 to 3/8 or 00 gauge). [ 2 ] : 16 The material and dimensions should be selected such that each leaf is capable of being hardened to have a fully martensitic structure throughout the ...
[16] [17] Production of the Straight Eight continued through several changes in management, [17] [18] placement of the Duesenberg Automobiles and Motors Company into receivership in January 1924, [2] [17] [19] and the restructuring of the company into the Duesenberg Motor Company in February 1925, [2] [17] [20] until the purchase of the company ...
When the car was decelerating, its own momentum drove the brake servo to provide additional power. [2] This technology was later licensed to other manufacturers, including arch-rival Rolls-Royce. [6] The 1922 H6B was slightly more powerful. An 8.0-litre (488 cu in) (110 by 140 mm (4.3 by 5.5 in)) engine was used in 1924's H6C. [2]
Hispano-Suiza (Spanish for 'Spanish-Swiss') is a Spanish automotive company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damián Mateu [] as an automobile manufacturer and eventually had several factories in Spain and France that produced luxury cars, aircraft engines, trucks and weapons.
The company was founded in 1954 as "Barreiros Diesel S.A." by Eduardo Barreiros and based in Madrid.Established initially as a producer of diesel engines, at Ourense the company then expanded to make commercial vehicles, reaching licensing agreements with French Berliet (truck cabs), British AEC (buses and coaches), German Hanomag (agricultural tractors), and Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH ...