early german photos

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by djb
My, it really looks tiny doesn't it? A very good visual comparison beside the front engine car beside it for the height of the driver etc.

This really was a clever car... the Jowett flat four was supercharged, it had originally used a motorcycle gearbox with some sort of bevel drive, but ultimately a standard Jowett box was bolted to a T-Model differential to form a transaxle. It had a de Dion rear end, and the engine was cradled to the chassis using some main bearing caps (true... it was!).

The poor chap on the second row must have been really racing on a budget--no outer body shell.

This was the apty named Bashmobile, the only photo of it I've ever seen. It had an early post-war Skoda chassis unit (they had a backbone, something like an Elan...) with a very hot Austin A40 (1940s type) engine.

Oh, yes, it got a body in the end... made of papier mache!