From the history of the tram car. The fact that on the tram lines of the country “standard” rolling stock occupied by the end of 1930-ies a dominant position, does not mean that he was free of flaws even for its time. First and foremost, experts have noted excessively large (14.5 tons) mass of motor cars of type “X”, which, being generally crowded with passengers, caused increased consumption of electricity. This dramatically inferior in dynamic characteristics surrounding them more intense flow of road transport, loud and unpleasant noise when driving, and quickly destroyed the railway track already laid in most of cities, buildings, that is, on the live thread. The elimination of the second control stations and door openings of the left side eased “Kharkiv” rather little, as it simultaneously had to introduce pneumatic actuator doors, the driver’s cabin and other improvements dictated by concern for safety.
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Car FIАТ-500 issue 2007. The legend of the Phoenix bird burns itself in old age and is reborn from the ashes in an updated form, originated in ancient times, however, it is perfectly suited famous Italian car FIАТ-500, which has recently experienced its third revival.
Admirals of the United States of America long resisted the emergence in its fleet of light cruisers, preferring the beloved “Washington” class. End to the resistance put by the London naval Treaty, limitirovanie not only limit the size of ships of different classes, but the total capacity allocated for each class. Although the Americans became happy owners of the largest quotas for heavy cruisers — 18 units, but almost all of it was already selected. There was nothing left to do but go to build a less ambitious units, weapons which could not exceed the caliber of 155 mm.
Increased need of our population in the budget vehicles to a large extent satisfied by the products of domestic car Assembly enterprises. Currently, the Moscow plant “Avtoframos” production of preparing one of these cars called Renault DUSTER. The car is a compact crossover SUV created on the chassis of the Renault LOGAN sedan in front-wheel-drive versions. Compared to the sedan, the trunk volume crossover 25 liter smaller, but it increases to 1636 litres with folded rear couch.
Boats Holland, triumphantly marched around the world were not the sole representatives of overseas inventions in the field of underwater shipbuilding. Almost simultaneously, quite suddenly, there was another branch that is associated with the name of Simon lake. This son of the owner of a small steel mill in the seaside town of Plesantville “ruined” Jules Verne, or rather, his famous novel about the adventures of captain Nemo on the submarine “Nautilus”. Read at the tender age of “bestseller” has completely changed Simon’s life, by the way, a very long (he had seen both world wars and died as many as in 1945). A real “skate” the lake was the development of the project is very original underwater “objects” that with equal reason be called and rode the submarine, and the submersible vehicle.
Nikolay Ilyich Kamov Is… to say it as I see numerous helicopters created under the guidance of this famous aircraft. This baby Ka-10, able to fly right out of the body “three-ton”, and the quadruple coaxial Ka-15, and the original scheme rotorcraft Ka-22, and a multi-purpose helicopter Ka-26… But the interests of N. I. Kamov is not confined only to creation helicopters. In 1957, at the request of the Ministry of communications of the USSR team CB started to develop a completely different machine — snowmobile. The first design, called “North”, resembled a passenger car, because it was created on the basis of the body of the famous “Victory.” It was chetyrehlistnyj snowmobile with an engine power of 260 HP in 1960, the first hundred of these machines started work on the carriage of mail.
In 1955 the designers of the Gorky automobile plant (GAZ) on the basis of units of army SUV GAZ-69 and the body has just launched a series of “Victory” GAZ-M20 has created a comfortable four-wheel drive car of the raised passableness, the GAZ-M72 (by the way, in official documents the “Victory” of the SUV was not called). From the episode “Victory” was taken from the supporting framework of the body (advanced reinforced and reconfigured) and body panels. However, to accommodate the transfer case designers had to remove the transverse box booster body and the longitudinal stiffener (the tunnel under the driveshaft), and in this regard to introduce 14 additional amplifiers floor, side members, roof lining and door pillars. Transmission — normally, from the “Victory”. The car was equipped with new under-engine frame for mounting leaf spring front suspension.
In 1955 the design Bureau of the Gorky automobile plant, who worked at the time on the creation of an all-wheel drive “Victory”, started designing small SUV M73 engine and a number of units from the car “Moskvich-402”. However, due to the lack of Gas capacity requirements, all documentation on the car was transferred to the Moscow plant of small cars (MZMA). Finishing “to mind” don’t take up too much time, and in 1957, four-wheel drive “Moskvich-410” was put into production.
Trucks fourth generation of GAZ-3307 GAZ — 3309. Automakers used to call generations of a group of machines based on the single structural elements (frame, cabin, engine). And speaking of cars trucks medium-duty Gorky automobile plant, then its currently the trucks GAZ-3307, GAZ-3309 or GAZ-3308 “Sadko” should be attributed to the cars of the fourth generation.
