Somehow caught us a description of the six-wheeled Rover “Giger”. The main nodes it was very simple. Absent transmission, driveshaft, rear axle — these, in General, quite complex and heavy assemblies. Small engines — separately for the left and right sides through a V-belt CVT transmit torque with its series of wheels connected by a chain. The supports of the axes of pneumococcal rigidly attached to the body and turns was carried out by adding the engine speed on one side and reduce the speed of the other.
A CAR WITHOUT A STEERING WHEEL
This car was designed (if one can call the process of thinking about design and estimates of size) and made for several hours after my brother and I received a message from his father from the village with a request to help him make his entrance to the house. It was clear that a stretcher we cannot do the work expected is significant, and any mechanized commercial vehicles was not expected.
Many people, especially those who live in rural areas, had to build, and those who had, perhaps still have, because man by nature loves to build is not only a necessity but a pleasure from the creative process. Here if it would be possible to mechanize here is a time-consuming work…
The car, which will be discussed, began to make acquaintance of mine in the late 1980s, when the automotive abundance was not far off, but we did not yet know. However, as soon as he made the frame with pendants, the enthusiasm waned; I had to continue the construction of the car to me. Having estimated the possibilities, I decided to take this job, especially because experiences in such a case I had earlier today I have restored practically from scrap “Moskvich-401”.
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.
(The end. The beginning in № 4, 1976) the design quality