Mass Soviet car VAZ-2101. In the early postwar years the car fleet in the country has increased dramatically this occurred both at the expense of production of cars “Moskvich-400” and “Victory” M-20, and because of the reparation receipts of vehicles from defeated Germany. In the country for the first time appeared quite a large number of cars in private use of citizens. And the more familiar Soviet people with the pleasures of owning a car, the more it became a circle wishing to possess this miracle of technology.
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Flight tests of the “Skimmer Zimmerman” was still in full swing, and BuAir has developed a specification for carrier-based fighter based on this unusual aircraft. In September received an order for two prototypes of the fighter.
The first car with this name was established in 1914 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamperbol — owners of the workshop in the London district of Kensington. A number of cars of sports type, in 1924, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and 5,000 pounds was purchased by the engineer V. Renwick. Creating a good 1.5-liter engine with overhead camshaft, new head of the firm and its companion A. Bertelli made him the main for ASTON MARTIN until 1936.
BMW 1 series new car-class Golf. When in 1974, the company Volkswagen has released a compact front wheel drive VW GOLF, it was hard to imagine that this tiny three-door hatchback small class, the exterior of which was designed by the great Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, will be the founder of a giant class of vehicles, called by the name of the very first “Golf course”. The reason for this was the tremendous popularity of cars in this class — for the first nine years of production of the VW GOLF they were released 6.8 million copies.
In 1951 the Board of FIAT at one of their meetings decided to replace produced from 1936 compact car TOPOLINO (“little mouse”) is more modern and comfortable machine. In the postwar years, the need of the population of Italy in an affordable and easy means of transport were enormous. At the same meeting were identified and the main characteristics of a compact car: speed over 85 km/h, with a capacity for 4 persons.
For several decades the Soviet patrol ships (TFR), formally considered as analogues of foreign frigates and corvettes, it was actually the destroyers — shock military units near the sea area. In fact, their successors and projects 35 159 focused on the fight against submarines, kept many of the “Menomonie” features: the same high speed, the same torpedo as the main weapon, the same “squat” silhouette with minimum add-ons… However, the emergence of the US nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles forced the Soviet Union to reconsider priorities.
Ask the pilots of the postwar era, the Canon of the plane, they learned the alphabet flying up in the skies first with the instructor and then independently. “Yak-18”, — unanimously they will answer. It is at this is a reliable and safe single-engine monoplane opened their way into aviation Gagarin, today’s supersonic test machines, aces of the air force and the commanders of multi-seat aircraft of Aeroflot.
The idea of transporting tanks by road transport arose during the First world war. It was the desire to make a real operational maneuvering tank units — that is, to make a quick transfer tanks from one front to another. To accomplish this movement on their own was excluded — was too low, the dynamic characteristics of combat vehicles in those years. But a suitable vehicle was not there.
In July 1967 a new Moscow Domodedovo airport held a Grand air show dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Oct. He is Pro-plagued an unforgettable impression on thousands of spectators: the parade was attended by the aircraft for various purposes, the existence of many of them in the West only became known after their show in Domodedovo.
“We have mastered the car ZIS-110 the machine is very complicated. Besides the fact that it requires a high level of culture of manufacture, it requires great technical maturity.” These words were spoken 30 years ago at the factory party conference of I. A. Likhachev, Director of the automobile plant, which bears his name.