CARS FOR KINGS

CAR FOR KINGSAmong the hundreds of companies included in the clip the global automotive industry, there are many of those who were destined to lay as the Foundation of modern automotive industry and major design and design trend of designing cars. However, only few of them became famous producers of the most prestigious cars. Among them, the French firm Bugatti, reached in his time a genuine heights in the automotive industry through design and organizational talent of its founder — Ettore Bugatti. By the way, brilliant Creator of vehicles were self-taught — for some reason, the Maestro was not able to obtain an engineering degree.

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BLOCKADE TRAM

TRAM SIEGEFrom the devastation of the civil war Petrograd began to rise by the middle of 1920-ies. Respectively, began to grow and the population of the city, considerably departing from 1918 to 1920. The only form of public transport in Petrograd was a tram, but the cars are too worn down and dilapidated over the years of the First world and Civil wars. Naturally, to return the city to normality was needed and the restoration of the tram system, which has taken a number of measures.

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URAL “THREE-TON”

URAL Autumn the evacuation of 1941, which resulted in the defense enterprises of the capital was transferred to the East of the country, has transformed a provincial town, which was the Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk and Miass, in the largest industrial centers, producing goods for needs of red Army. Thus in the Urals city of Miass appeared one of the most powerful Soviet enterprises for the production of military vehicles.

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WHERE THE ASPHALT ENDS

ZIL-157Readers of the older generation, of course, well remember during the last war. Autumn impassability of roads, forty-one, broken tracks and wheels, smeshannye thousands of feet, frontage roads pitted with craters-graders. And the impotence of the machinery such enduring and seemingly unpretentious trucks and trentodoc, mounted, “on diver” every two hundred metres. In those years in off-road conditions clearly emerged (and later confirmed repeatedly) that designers of transport equipment, not forgetting about the usual machines adapted for movement on the road, you need to pay more attention to the all-terrain vehicles. The country needed a wheeled all-terrain vehicles, combining the speed of “normal” and indifference to road conditions tracked vehicles.

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CONVEYOR FRONT EDGE

THE CONVEYOR OF THE FRONT EDGECame to the end of the Second world war, however, to stop the developing course of the military “machine” was not easy. The fighting was over, however, the industry is yesterday’s allies continued to produce military equipment and to create new types of weapons. One of the reasons for this were civil and national-liberation war in East and South-East Asia, generously sponsored by on the one hand the United States of America, and on the other by the Soviet Union. While testing a testing ground for the warring parties supply of military equipment were Korea and Vietnam.

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Chevrolet of issue 1937

Chevrolet of issue, 1937With the beginning of car production appeared a clear division of these vehicles-freight and passenger. However, Americans are farmers or those engaged in small business – I needed a versatile machine, combining the qualities of the first and second. And they began to trim the cars body rear end and instead install a cargo platform. The initiative quickly picked up the industry by launching the serial production of vans modification called “pickup”. The main manufacturers of such machines in the US have the largest car company -Chevrolet and FORD.

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GAS-4

GAS 4The history of “picaporte” in our country, opened the car GAZ-4 with a lifting capacity 0,5 t, launched the series in 1933. The development of machine production did not require much cost: it was only during that time a serial domestic passenger car GAZ-A, equipped with standard twin cabin from the lorry GAS-AA with a metal loading platform with dimensions 1,6×1,1 m, with a folding wooden benches for six passengers.

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GAZ-415

GAZ-415Pickup GAZ-4 in the Soviet Union enjoyed a well – deserved popularity – it acquired trading bases, small businesses and cooperatives. In 1936, at the Gorky automobile plant is the GAZ-A, the basis of the pickup GAZ-4, launched a series of GAZ-M1. Factory designers and engineers quickly developed a relatively inexpensive technology of serial production of pickup on the basis of “emka”, the designation GAZ-415.

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AND AEROASTRO

NORTH AEROASTROSnowmobile Ka-30. The first test of the snowmobile “North-2”, created in OKB famous designer of helicopters, N.And.Kamov, showed that they have two fatal defect is small capacity and lack of capacity. Not surprisingly -because this snowmobile was created on the basis of the body of a conventional car GAZ-M20 “Victory” and was a vehicle comparable in these parameters with this cars. Therefore, the design Bureau was instructed to develop still, and a 10-seater snowmobile Ka-30 cab high capacity, which according to its characteristics resembled popular in those years is also a 10-seater minibus RAF-977Д “Latvia”.

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