Showing posts with label three wheeler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label three wheeler. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Morgan Three Wheeler



The Morgan 3 Wheeler
The success of the Morgan Motor Company was founded on the manufacture of an icon, the Morgan Threewheeler. This brilliant but simple design by engineer Harry Morgan (HFS) became one of the most successful lightweight cars of the early days of motoring. From 1909 to 1953 around 30,000 Morgan Threewheelers were manufactured in Malvern and many more were made under license by Darmont Morgan in France. For many lucky owners it was their first experience of the freedom that car ownership could bring. Fast acceleration combined with a cruising range of over 50 miles to a gallon of petrol was an unbeatable combination in the day. On the race track the car became very successful, famously winning the French Grand Prix in 1913 and regularly lapping the banked Brooklands track at an average speed of over 100 mph. Stirling Moss who owned one is on record as saying “My Morgan was a great babe magnet”..... click on title to continue... I'll get these links sorted out one day!!!

Friday, 11 February 2011

Cars



I was looking through some pics from my trip to NZ in 08, I came across this pic of a very unusual three wheeler, the Davis, in the Southward Motor Museum in the south of the North Island.
It was built in the USA just after the Second World War by a company called Davis Motor Car Company in Van Nuys, California. Due to various problems total production of vehicles were only just into the twenties... click title for the story of this unusual Car


pic from the Davis Registry.



The Southward Museum has a web site and heres the link http://www.thecarmuseum.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=87 (copy and paste) Have a look in their Gallery, some nice vehicles!