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• Lancia Dilambda
  [[Category:1920s automobiles]] [[Category:1930s automobiles]]
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• Monocoque
  ...oque construction was first widely used in [[aircraft]], starting in the [[1930s]], and is the predominant [[automobile]] construction technology today. ==Automobiles==
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• List of microcars by country of origin: I
  ...''' British motorists are credited with being the first to christen the 1930s Fiat 500A “Little Mouse” or Topolino in Italian. The nickname was unive *'''b.''' At some time the company was restructured to become Sipani Automobiles Ltd, sources vary widely as to the year that this took place. In 1982 the c
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• Drum brake
  ...were mechanically operated with levers and rods or cables. From the mid-[[1930s]] the shoes were operated with oil pressure in a small wheel [[Cylinder (en ...umstances. For this reason drum brakes have been superseded in most modern automobiles and light trucks with at least front wheel (often now four wheel) [[disc br
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• Lancia Aprilia
  '''Lancia Aprilia''' (1936 - 1949) were automobiles manufactured by [[Lancia]], one of [[Category:1930s automobiles]]
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• Eifelrennen
  == ADAC Eifelrennen winners (automobiles) == == ADAC Eifelrennen winners (automobiles) on the Nürburgring ==
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• Body-on-frame
  ...ly [[ash tree|ash]]), but steel '''ladder frames''' became common in the [[1930s]].
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• Alfa Romeo Gran Sport Quattroruote
  ...ian car manufacturer [[Alfa Romeo]]. The car was a "retro" replica of the 1930s [[Alfa Romeo 6C#6C 1750 (1929-1933)|1750 Gran Sport]] model (although the e [[Category:1960s automobiles]]
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• Legend car racing
  .../8-scale replicas of [[United States|American]] [[automobiles]] from the [[1930s]] and [[1940s]] once raced in the [[NASCAR]] modified division. The rule bo
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• René Dreyfus
  ...]], [[1905]] - died [[August 16]], [[1993]]) was a French driver who raced automobiles for 14 years in the [[1920]]s and [[1930]]s, the Golden Era of [[Grand Prix ...s born and raised in [[Nice]], [[France]] and showed an early interest in automobiles, learning to drive before the age of nine. The middle of three children, hi
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• Alfa Romeo 6c
  [[Category:1920s automobiles]] [[Category:1930s automobiles]]
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• Torsion beam suspension
  ...nt torsion bar suspension, along with air cooled rear engines. Also in the 1930s, prototypes of the first [[Volkswagen Beetle]] incorporated torsion bars - Some [[front-wheel drive]] automobiles use a type of torsion bar suspension, usually called a [[Twist-beam rear su
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• Maserati 4CLT/50
  ...season, as a rival to the [[Alfa Romeo 158]] and various [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]] models in the [[voiturette]] class of international [[Grand Prix moto In the late 1930s, continued rapid development in the increasingly competitive international
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• History of the Alfa Race Engine
  ...e 12 cylinder GP engine to defeat the Mercedes and Auto Unions in the late 1930s cost him his job at Alfa Romeo. Jano went on to [[Lancia]], where again he ...struggled to regain life. It was essential to begin the mass production of automobiles, but accord them the passion, handling, performance, and engineering princi
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• Alfa Romeo 6C
  ...formidable ''Mercedes-Benz'' and Auto Union entries. Alfa Romeo began the 1930s as it ended the 1920s, dominating Italy’s sports car and competition scen [[Category:1920s automobiles]]
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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 In the 1930s Baldi designed another racing bike, a 498cc ohc single. This bike was ridde
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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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• Maserati 4CL/50
  ...season, as a rival to the [[Alfa Romeo 158]] and various [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]] models in the [[voiturette]] class of international [[Grand Prix moto In the late 1930s, continued rapid development in the increasingly competitive international
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• Moretti
  ...Giovanni Moretti also dabbled in [[microcars]] in the late 1920s and early 1930s. During [[World War II]], Moretti found success constructing various [[comm ...ched to using [[Fiat]] mechanicals and chassis for all of its conventional automobiles. Despite offering a full range of model versions based on the '750' (saloon
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• Turbo
  Turbocharging is very common on [[Diesel engine]]s in conventional automobiles, in [[truck]]s, for marine and heavy machinery applications. In fact, for ...mmonly used on two types of engines: Gasoline engines in high-performance automobiles and Diesel engines in work trucks. Small cars in particular benefit from t
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