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Pre war crosley
« on: August 29, 2010, 03:20:45 pm »
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Re: Pre war crosley
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 04:16:27 pm »
believe even the americans had joined the war by 1942 ! Dec 1941 i believe , so not exactly pre-war
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Re: Pre war crosley
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 07:58:30 pm »
I rather like these, though talking of Crosley's is the silver car captured by Jim an early attempt by them to produce a three wheeler? It seemed to be parked with the others.

http://www.microcar.org/gallery/v/worldmeet/jim/P1000806.jpg.html
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Re: Pre war crosley
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 10:08:13 pm »
The silver car is a 1937 Crosley CRAD prototype produced 2 years before the Crosley actually went into production.
(according the card on the windscreen)

a bit more info here:
http://crosleybook.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-designed-first-crosley-automobile.html

seems Crosley was simply trying to eliminate a differential by using 3 wheels rather than 4 but found the configuration to be to unstable.
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