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A 1934 Standard 10/12 Speedline. The Standard Ten was a model name given to several small cars produced by the British Standard Motor Company between 1906 and 1961. The name was a reference to the car's fiscal horsepower or tax horsepower, a function of the surface area of the pistons. This system quickly became obsolete as an estimate of the ...
At first the RAC rating was usually representative of the car's actual (brake) horsepower, but as engine design and technology progressed in the 1920s and 1930s these two figures began to diverge, with engines making much more power than their RAC ratings suggested: by 1924 the 747 cc (45.6 cu in) engine of the Austin Seven (named for its 7 hp ...
February 5 2 Governor's Cup 68 mi (109 km) Marlboro Motor Raceway: Upper Marlboro, Maryland: April 16 3 President's Cup 3 hours Virginia International Raceway: Danville, Virginia: April 30 4 Cumberland National Championship Sports Car Races 45 minutes Greater Cumberland Regional Airport: Wiley Ford, West Virginia: May 15 5 Bridgehampton ...
The 1964 SCCA National Sports Car Championship season was the fourteenth and final season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship. It began April 12, 1964, and ended October 31, 1964, after eleven races.
When Austin's five-year contract officially ended in 1906 they had made more than 1,500 cars. Wolseley was the largest British motor manufacturer and Austin's reputation was made. The company had been formed in March 1901. By 1 May 1901 Austin had issued his first catalogue. There were to be two models, 5 hp and 10 hp.
The Model C engine was an opposed twin, 10 hp car, with a claimed top speed of 30 mph (48 km/h). [2] The Model C two-seater, sometimes marketed as a "doctor's car," sold for $850 ($28,824 in 2023 dollars [ 3 ] ), compared to the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout at US$650, [ 4 ] Western 's Gale Model A at US$500, [ 5 ] and the Success at a low US ...
Bean Cars was a brand of motor vehicles made in England by A Harper Sons & Bean, Ltd at factories in Dudley, Worcestershire, and Coseley, Staffordshire. The company began making cars in 1919 and diversified into light commercial vehicles in 1924. For a few years in the early 1920s Bean outsold Austin and Morris. [1]
The Morris Ten is a medium-sized car introduced for 1933 as the company's offering in the important 10 hp sector of the British market. It continued through a series of variants until October 1948 when along with Morris's Twelve and Fourteen it was replaced by the 13.5 hp Morris Oxford MO.