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The earliest use of the term production car being applied to motor cars, found to date, was in a June 1914 American advertisement for a Regal motor car. [1] The phrase was a shortened form of mass-produced or quantity-produced car. [2] [3] The phrase was also used in terms of the car to be made in production, as opposed to the prototype. [4]
This decomposition allows an oxygen concentration of 36.36% to be reached. Nitrogen gas is non-combustible and does not support combustion. Air—which contains only 21% oxygen, the rest being nitrogen and other equally non-combustible and non-combustion-supporting gasses—permits a 12-percent-lower maximum-oxygen level than that of nitrous oxide.
Car longevity is of interest to many car owners [1] and includes several things: maximum service life in either mileage or time (duration), relationship of components to this lifespan, identification of factors that might afford control in extending the lifespan. Barring an accidental end to the lifespan, a car would have a life constrained by ...
Charles Keen began constructing a steam car in 1940 with the intention of restarting steam car manufacturing. Keen's family had a long history of involvement with steam propulsion going back to his great-great-grandfather in the 1830s, who helped build early steam locomotives. His first car, a Plymouth Coupe, used a Stanley engine.
To make up for the power loss, hydrogen engines are usually larger than gasoline engines, and/or are equipped with turbochargers or superchargers. [45] A small amount of hydrogen can be burned outside the combustion chamber and reach into the air/fuel mixture in the chamber to ignite the main combustion.
Share of the Nash Motors Company, issued 2 June 1919. Nash Motors Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin from 1916 until 1937. From 1937 through 1954, Nash Motors was the automotive division of Nash-Kelvinator.
Single-seat Morgan Runabout, similar to HFS Morgan's 1909 car Rear view, showing swingarm rear suspension Advert for Morgan's four-wheel "Adler", from The Aeroplane, 15 August 1912. H.F.S. Morgan quit the Great Western Railway in 1904 and co-founded a motor sales and servicing garage in Malvern Link. In 1909 he designed and built a car for his ...
World's first plastic car body Plastic car frame patent 2,269,452 (January 13, 1942) [1] Soybean car frame patent, Fig. 2 The soybean car was a concept car built with agricultural plastic . The New York Times in 1941 states the car body and fenders were made from a strong material derived from soy beans , wheat and corn . [ 2 ] [