About racing Deutsche Tourenwagen Veisterschaft in Russia only a few know. Maybe because they are the only three car brands: Opel, Audi and Mercedes-Benz. Interestingly, be admitted to the competition of the serial sports cars, which, however, can radically alter.
The oldest Italian aviation company Agusta (Gallart, Northern Italy) has been manufacturing helicopters in 1952. The first President and General Manager of the helicopter company was Dominic Augusta, his assistant Mario Agusta, chief instructor — Filippo Zappata. Initially, the company specialized in the licensed production of helicopters of Bell, then worked with the companies of Sikorsky and Boeing-Vertol. In addition, Agusta designs and produces small series helicopters of its own design.
Classification of self-propelled artillery of the Wehrmacht were quite complex and confusing. There were several main classes of ACS: Sturmgeschütze — assault guns, Selbstfahrlafetten — self-propelled carriages, . und Jagdpanzer self — propelled anti-tank guns, anti-tank, Flakpanzer — anti-aircraft self-propelled guns. The confusion in classification is exacerbated by the fact that the machines belong to one type when upgrading actually acquired the characteristic features of the other. For example, the assault gun StuG III after the re-75-mm long-barreled gun turned into a classic tank destroyer — Jagdpanzer, and in this capacity was used, although up to the end of the war was still called an assault weapon.
The history of FIAT, now numbering more than a hundred years goes back to minor at first glance, the events in 1898. It was then that the engineer Giovanni Battista Ceirano, who at that time produced bicycles with the support of the entrepreneurs and financiers of the city of Turin has launched the development of a new car with a view to its serial production at the newly created firm Ceirano. In March 1899 prototype of the new car WELLEYES designed by Aristide Faccioli, built. It was a crew with two-cylinder engine working volume of 663 cm3 and a two-speed transmission.
FRONT-WHEEL DRIVE MINI COOPER S 2002 ISSUE. Until now, the main trend of the world design was the desire to create a car that did not create one. The designers were looking for new shapes, the designers designed new components and assemblies, engineers have developed advanced technological processes… In the end, the car dealers were flooded with futuristic concept cars, which, according to the plans of producers in a few years was to fill the city streets. But more recently, designers have adopted another principle of creating new cars, which on the basis of the stage model of yesteryear.
Ask car enthusiasts about which meaning is embedded in “tree” — the emblem of the famous French firm Citroen and you will get a variety of answers. And, maybe one out of ten say that the sign shows a pair of teeth of the herringbone gear, the production of which had been established by company founder andré citroën.
Oddly enough, but until 1963, the famous Creator of the most prestigious racing cars, Lamborghini Ferruccio engaged in production… tractors. The reason for such a radical change it was a youthful fascination with the designer — in the distant postwar years he was engaged in the conversion of the serial “Fiats” in sports cars.
Firm history John North Willis began with the acquisition in 1908 of a small automobile company Overland, which became known as Willys-Overland. The new firm first specialized in the production sports cars with 4-cylinder engines and planetary transmissions, however, soon created cars with a 45-horsepower motors and WILLYS OVERLAND SIX SIX. In 1913 the company sold about 35 thousand cars entered if the number of the leading automobile companies of America.
Strategic bomber b-47 STRATOGET. Work in the field of creation of jet engines suitable for use on aircraft, began in the USA in 1941. The design of new power plants engaged in the company “Allis-Chalmers”, “Westinghouse” and “General electric”, which was part of the so-called Committee of Durand. The first two working under orders of the Navy, and the third was designed turboprop engine for the air force. All three firms had a very vague idea about gas turbine engines for aircraft, their main activity was the production of industrial turbines. Therefore, the work progressed slowly, which naturally did not suit the military.
This prestigious car developed by specialists of the Japanese company Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. was first shown to the public at the motor show in Tokyo in 1999 as a promising concept car. The history of the brand LEXUS, used Toyota firm for the most prestigious cars began more than a decade ago when this Japanese firm began to produce a purely export model badged LEXUS. The first such machine — LS400 — appeared on the automotive market of the United States in 1988. In 1997 Тоyota LEXUS released the second generation with a more powerful engine.