But alas, realized they were not given.īy 1940, the American command, it became clear that the U.S. Plans «American Austin» were solid, for a start the company: to produce up to 44 thousand of these machines.
Fun fact : in the design of models Bantam- 60 participated Russian emigre Count Alexei Sahnovsky. Bantam- 60 has been proposed as a sports roadster, coupe korotkobaznym and easy pickup ruzopodemnostyu 250 kg. Power 4- cylinder engine capacity of 748 cm 3 was increased to 20 hp The engine was quite original in its design : the engine was the only roller bearings on which the crankshaft rotates. The basis for this machine has served all the same Austin Seven, but he was thoroughly modernized in accordance with the requirements of the market. In 1937, on the site of «American Austin» appeared firm «American Bantam», which suggested the U.S. The weak capacity of the engine, high competition and other factors played their part. Already in 1934 «American Austin» bankrupt and disappeared from the scene. market inexpensive European car was not successful. īack in the 30th year of the 20th century, the city of Butler, the American branch of the English company «Austin» start serial production of the famous small car Austin Seven. It was with him and begins the story of four-wheel drive passenger cars in the U.S. But before that saw the light of a little-known SUV Bantam. The history of American -wheel-drive passenger cars, it would seem, began with the famous off-road Jeep.
In this series of cars has gone only after the sale Cotto for his invention and patents Milwaukee Four-Wheel Drive Wagon Company in 1903 will fit that produced the assembly of these machines in a small amount of up to 1907 Since 1906, they built four-wheel drive trucks (early American company put Motor Truck ). Naturally, the design was far from perfect, but its appearance - too avant-garde for its time. This steam engine had a four-wheel drive with chains, like a bicycle. The first mention of the all-wheel drive vehicles, according to historical data back to 1901, when Charles Kottayam, the Lanark Illinois Cottamobile built in Lanark.
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