Only six months after the outbreak of the First world war Britain, the strongest Maritime power, it seemed, had no rivals on the oceans, was in dire Straits. New, not taken seriously weapons — submarines — now threatened to “foggy Albion” hunger and deprivation.
In the second half of the nineteenth century the fishermen of the Atlantic coast of France, and especially popular were the so-called “Icelandic” schooner — two-masted wooden vessels with increased width of the body and good seakeeping. Despite its modest size, they could make long voyages and endured serious storm. The peculiarity of their snap was that all the sails (including direct marceli) were placed and were removed directly from the deck, as the modern yacht is allowed to increase safety during inclement weather. On fishing schooners usually left to the shores of Iceland — from this came their name.
the Hero of our story – the GAZ-67B, one of that specific type, which during the Second world war became known as “jeep”. But even a few years before the appearance of this model in the Soviet Union already had cars, which had on its creation and design is quite a big impact. So refer to the summer of 1936 when Gorky (until 1932 and again now Nizhny Novgorod) automobile plant was built the first prototypes of the GAZ-M1 (“emka”).
Aircraft manufacturing firm in the UK With the Bristol Aeroplane Ltd was founded in 1910. Until the end of the Second world war the company produced mainly military aircraft, including such famous machines as the bomber “Blenheim” night fighter “Bowater” and torpedo “Beaufort”.
In 1936 the staff of A. N. Tupolev was given the task to design and build a new double multi-purpose aircraft. The implementation of this task was entrusted to the team of Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi, which has previously proven itself as a aircraft ANT-25, ANT-37 (“homeland”) and many others. In August, the aircraft, designated ANT-51 (S-3) was ready for testing. When the lapping machine emerged that can significantly improve its flight and tactical quality. First, the aircraft was equipped with engine M-62 with a capacity of 20 HP, and in 1939 for mass production was adopted the variant with the motor M-68 with a capacity of 1,000 HP, yet it was later replaced by M-82 with a capacity of 1440 HP Respectively grew the speed of the aircraft, increased its armament.
In 2001 Jeep Grand Marche is 60 years old. It was at this time was to mark the release of a new range of SUVs Grand Cherokee. It is chaired by the variant received its own name Overland in honor of the long-defunct company Willys-Overland, which in the period of the Second world war supplied the army famous army jeeps.
Compact MERCEDES-BENZ A-class. Rumors about the creation of the Mercedes-Benz fancy car of a Golf class began circulating in the automotive press in the early 90-ies of the last century. The excitement was easy to explain: compact cars, small class firm produced, except that in the distant 30-ies — it was the family car MERCEDES-130 with a 26-strong engine working volume of 1.3 L.
Heavy duty anti-tank gun BOB-25. The famous “sorokopyatki” — 45 mm 19K anti-tank gun of the sample in 1932 and its upgraded version 53K model 1937 was in fact the only anti-tank guns by June 22, 1941. Ballistics and armor-piercing 45-mm antitank gun 53K was relatively good, but its 560-kg mass was too big even for battalion guns. However, the platoon consisting of two such guns that were part of many infantry battalions.
Since 1936 the Automobile plant named after Stalin (ZIS) in addition to the famous “trentodoc” ZIS-5 was produced and Executive cars. The first limo was the ZIS-101, was designed by the factory team of designers under the direction of E. Vazhinsky. In the production process (until 1941) was released 8752 such machines.
Nostalgic attempts to revive the once famous machines now become ubiquitous. Not spared this trend and famous company BMW, which at the Frankfurt motor show 2001 presented two car-twin — MINI ONE and MINI COOPER.