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The Model A engine uses a centrifugal water pump, mounted to the engine cylinder head, and it works with the engine fan. The Model A engine uses plain water to cool the engine; antifreeze coolant is not recommended because the original Model A radiator is not a pressurized system. The pump circulates radiator-cooled water into the lower engine ...
The air column from a 3-foot-diameter (0.91 m) fan, therefore, has more than six times as much friction interface per volume of air moved as does the air column from a 20-foot-diameter (6.1 m) fan. [8] When the down column of air from an HVLS fan reaches the floor, the air turns in the horizontal direction away from the column in all directions.
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This engine provided 40 hp (30 kW; 41 PS). [12] Top speed was around 65 mph (105 km/h). The Model A had a 103.5 in (2,630 mm) wheelbase with a final drive ratio of 3.77:1. The transmission was a conventional unsynchronized three-speed sliding-gear manual [12] with a single speed reverse. The Model A had four-wheel mechanical drum brakes. [12]
The company's focus shifted almost exclusively to fan sales, and the company started doing business under the name HVLS Fan Company. [ 1 ] In 2000, the company initiated a marketing campaign with mailers depicting their fans with a picture of the rear of a donkey and the caption "Big Ass Fan". [ 3 ]
Shay Motors Corporation was an automobile company founded by Harry J. Shay in February 1978 as the Model A & Model T Motor Car Reproduction Corporation. [1] Harry Shay arranged with Ford Motor Company to build a limited run, modern-day reproduction of the Ford Model A Roadster, with a rumble seat, that was to be sold through the network of Ford Automobile Dealers and built in Battle Creek ...
The Model AA Ford is powered by the same 201-cubic-inch (3.3 L) I4 engine that the Model A Ford used. The engine produced a maximum of 40 horsepower at 2,200 rpm. The engine featured an up-draft carburetor, six-volt generator, 2 and 4-blade fan, mechanical water pump, mechanical oil pump, electric starter and four-row radiator. All of these ...
[4] [5] [6] The standard compression ratio of five to one yielded 88 hp (66 kW) at 3600 rpm [5] and 170 lb⋅ft (230 N⋅m) of torque at 1500 rpm. [6] This gave the Model A a top speed of 71 miles per hour or 114 kilometres per hour. A single dry-plate clutch and an unsynchronized three-speed gearbox were bolted to the engine. The gearbox was ...