In the early 1950-ies of the countries of Western Europe is flooded with a variety of subcompact cars: Germany — Heinkel-Kabine and Zundap Janus, France — Citroen 2CV, England — Mini, Italy — Bernardo and FIAT-600. Firm FIAT has a considerable experience of creating compact cars, its first mass minicar FIAT-500 Topolino firm produced from 1936 to 1955. The decision to replace FIAT-500 more modern model was adopted in 1951, and since 1955 has begun mass production of the model “600”. Quadruple machine with a total length of 3,215 m was equipped with a 21.5 horsepower engine and a top speed of 95 km/h.THE KNIFE FROM THE TORSION
An excellent material for knives of various tools: earth drill, garden equipment, etc. can provide steel bands from the old torsion suspension of “Zaporozhets”. A. MATVEICHUK, Zavodoukovsk, Tyumen region.
Central to the exhibition NTTM-78, dedicated to the XVIII Congress of the Komsomol, and the 60th anniversary of the Komsomol, very popular among the visitors enjoyed the section “Eureka”, in which he demonstrated unusual vehicles created by Amateur designers. Wheeled-tracked all-terrain vehicle “Arctic”, built as an electrician from Rybinsk Valery Medvedev, was one of those cars that arrived in Moscow on VDNH USSR “his way.” Yes, it was not a model but a live working machine, figuratively, “discontinued operation” in the household of his Creator. Summer and winter, heat and cold, hunting and fishing, just outside the city with your family or on urgent business drives this original machine designer. Already more than fifty thousand kilometers was “Polar”. The mileage is respectable, even for production vehicles.
Snow scooter “the little humpbacked Horse” — advanced single track sled with steering from the mountains for skiing on-piste slalom or downhill. In different countries such sleds have different names: “snow bike”, “snow horse”, “ski-Bob”, “ski-Doo” (“the snow flea”). And they are made variously depending on the purpose and conditions of operation.
Was close on the streets of big cities in many countries. Cars almost RUB against each other. The speed of the traffic flow often barely exceeds walking speed. But just watch — in a multi-bed machine sitting often only one driver, in the best case in society only passenger. The other places are empty. Then, maybe, you need to reduce the machine dimensions to one double-minicar, freeing up additional space on the streets thousands more like them?
Perhaps the most part, even far from the sea and naval Affairs readers will agree that the word “submarine” the first thing comes to mind is the thought about German. Dark grey body, emerging from the waves and drowning defenseless transport goods or people torpedoes or shoot his target from a cannon. What can you do Germany and its leaders have done much to leave this not very honorable, but terrible mark in both world wars.
This year — 100 years since the birth of S. P. Korolev, the father of the Soviet space program, the outstanding designer of the first artificial satellites and spacecraft, the Creator of Russian strategic missiles. His interest in rocketry could arise even during his studies (he graduated in 1930 Bauman.Bauman), and finally strengthened with the creation of the public organization gird (Hoppy the study of reactive motion), where he developed and tested the first Soviet rocket “gird-9” and “gird-X”.
When machining on milling machines it is frequently necessary to install the item at a certain angle. An original device for this purpose was shown in NTTM-78 military innovators. This unique milling angle for the inclined fastening of machine parts. It consists of a base, a graduated sector and the movable hinge strap.