EUROPE’S CHEAPEST
CAR FOR LESS THAN £75 A new small car—the Galbar—is being, made in France, where it is being sold for less than £75. It is the baby class, with a wheelbase of SSi inches and a 40-inch track. Only single-seater models are being produced, and these are said to have a maximum speed of 48 m.p.h. on a petrol consumption of 48 m.p.g. The motor is unusual, being a twocylinder, two-stroke, with a rotary distributor, which delivers the mixture to the cylinders under a slight pressure. This obviates the usual twostroke principle of crank case compression. The ignition distributor is mounted ou the top of the combined starter-generator, while the blowerdistributor, situated at the rear of the starter motor, draws the mixture from a Solex carburettor aud delivers it to the cylinders. The throws of the engine are at ISO degrees and the motor is said to have the rhy'thm of a four-cylinder fourstroke. Lubrication is by splash; the clutch is a cone type; and the gear box has only two forward speeds and a reverse. A transverse spring is used in front and quarter elliptics at the rear. Four-wheel brakes are fitted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 758, 3 September 1929, Page 6
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195EUROPE’S CHEAPEST Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 758, 3 September 1929, Page 6
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