Cycle-Car Is Czech Test Pilot’s Latest Bright Idea

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 17, 8 November 1948, Page 4

Cycle-Car Is Czech Test Pilot’s Latest Bright Idea

When does a motor cycle become a car, or vice versa? The fitting of additional protection for the driver to a motor cycle hardly makes it a car, but a recent Continental, vehicle was designed more as a car with' a single track than as a motor cycle with car comfort. The aims of the designer. Jan Anderle, a Czechoslovak test pilot, are to be provide car comfort with motor cycle light weight and economy. The Dalmik, as it is named, was originally designed in 1936, but was not completed until 1941. It is built largely of car-spares and components and has a water-cooled twostroke twin-cylinder engine of 615 c.c., with a three-speed and reverse gear box. The fro*nt wheel is shod with a 4.50 x 16in. tyre, but the rear wheel is smaller. Two small out-rider wheels come into use for maintaining stability at rest, or when starting or stopping, by pressing a pedal. If the driver, or rider, is alone he sits centrally, but the seat is wide enough for a. passenger to be accommodated and the steering bar can be moved for either side or central driving position. Performance is said to be approximately 60 m.p.h. and 60 m.p.g. A later version than this vehicle has been built with a four-stroke single-cylinder engine of 350 c.c. The dry weight is approximately 5 cwt., as against just over 7acwt. for the earlier model. The final production model will have a 250 c.c. single-cylinder two-stroke engine with four-speed box and automatic clutch; the weight of this is estimated at just over 3cwt.