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• Bianchi Motorcycles
  ...a major [[italy|Italian]] [[bicycle]] manufacturer, and who also produced automobiles from 1900 to 1939. Edoardo Bianchi started his bicycle manufacturing busin ...hi produced 123 cc and 248 cc ohc single racers, and in the late 1950s released new 248&nvsp;cc and 348&nvsp;cc dohc twins, designed by Colombo an
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• Station wagon
  ...akes in framing the passenger compartments of their passenger vehicles. In automobiles, the framing was sheathed in steel which was then covered in colored lacque ..., evolved from trucks and were viewed as Commercial Vehicles, not consumer automobiles. The framing of the early station wagons were left unsheathed because of th
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• Continuously variable transmission
  ...der of [[DAF Trucks|Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek]] (DAF), in the late [[1950s]], specifically to produce an automatic transmission for a small, affordabl ==New automobiles equipped with CVT==
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• Dirt speedway racing
  ...open wheel racers were built for racing, and the stock cars were ordinary automobiles modified to varying degrees. Stock cars are generally automobiles manufactured by the major automakers with certain modifications as allowed
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• Wankel engine
  National agencies which tax automobiles according to displacement and regulatory bodies in [[automobile racing]] va ...e year 1957. Considerable effort went into designing rotary engines in the 1950s and 1960s. They were of particular interest because they were smooth and ve
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• Automobile design
  ...ehicles or more specifically road vehicles. This most commonly refers to [[automobiles]] but also refers to [[motorcycle]]s, [[truck]]s, [[bus]]es, [[Coach (vehic ...[[tailfin]] and other aeronautical design references to auto design in the 1950s.
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...enault]], [[Citroen]] and [[Volkswagen]], as well as by [[Packard]] in the 1950s. The Packard used torsion bars at both front and rear, and interconnected t Some [[front-wheel drive]] automobiles use a type of torsion bar suspension, usually called a [[Twist-beam rear su
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• Cam in block
  Although L-head inline 4 and 6 cylinder engines were frequently used for automobiles, tractors, etc., the best known '''flathead''' automotive engine is the [[F ...r use was the [[Willys Hurricane engine]], used in civilian Jeeps in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. It was replaced by the I-head design.
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• Dirt track racing
  Stock cars are generally automobiles manufactured by the major automakers with certain modifications as allowed These cars are modified manufactured automobiles. There is a high degree of variability between classes of modified cars. Th
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• Cam-in-block
  Although L-head inline 4 and 6 cylinder engines were frequently used for automobiles, tractors, etc., the best known L-head automotive engine is the [[Ford Flat ...r use was the [[Willys Hurricane engine]], used in civilian Jeeps in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. It was replaced by the I-head design.
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• Grand Prix de Pau
  In the 1950s the race was run sporadically as a non-championship Formula One race, with | [[Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives|AGS]]
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• Brake fade
  the 1950s by self adjusting [[Drum brake#History|''brakes'']].
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• Bugatti
  The company attempted a comeback under [[Roland Bugatti]] in the mid-1950s with the [[MR layout|mid-engined]] [[Bugatti Prototypes#Type 251|Type 251]] ==Bugatti Automobiles SAS==
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• Automobile
  ...s its own [[car engine|motor]]. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for between one and ...f the modern automobile, several other German engineers worked on building automobiles at the same time. In 1886, [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Wilhelm Maybach]] in
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• Fiat 600
  [[Category:1950s automobiles]] [[Category:1960s automobiles]]
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• Alfa Romeo 6C
  [[Category:1920s automobiles]] [[Category:1930s automobiles]]
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• History of the automobile
  Vehicles that can be considered [[automobiles]] may have been demonstrated as early as 1769, although that date is disput ...1892 to carry two adults. One of the first four-wheeled [[petrol]]-driven automobiles in Britain was built in [[Birmingham]] in 1895 by [[Frederick William Lanch
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• Ilario Bandini
  At the start of the 1950s, Ilario Bandini became a dealer in Italy for [[Alfa Romeo]] and then for [[ ==1950s racing opportunities in the USA==
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• Car body style
  ...d '''Tudor''' : These names were coined by [[Ford Motor Company]] in the [[1950s]] to describe four-door and two-door bodystyles respectively. These terms ;'''[[Landau (car)|Landau]]''' : In automobiles, generally (inaccurately) synonymous with ''landaulet''; also used for a ca
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• Manual transmission
  ...izers were called "Porsche-type" for many years after this. In the early [[1950s]] only the second-third shift was synchromesh in most cars, requiring only ...not heard in the forward gears. The teeth on the forward gears of consumer automobiles are helically cut. When helical gears rotate, their teeth slide together, w
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