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• Daimler Motor Company
  ...h automobile manufacturer. See [[Daimler]] for other uses derived from the German engineer and inventor [[Gottlieb Daimler]]. For the two direct descendants ...llschaft]] itself, in 1902, while the name ''Daimler'' was last used for a German built car in 1908.
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• NSU
  '''NSU Motorenwerke AG''' (normally just '''NSU''') was a German manufacturer of [[automobile|cars]] and motorcycles and a predecessor to wh During World War II NSU designed and produced the famous Kettenkrad, the NSU HK101, a [[half-tr
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• Alvis Cars
  ...dom from 1919 to 1967. The company also produced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing long after car production ceased. ...innovations. Independent front [[suspension (vehicle)|suspension]] and the world's first all-[[synchromesh]] gearbox came in 1933 followed by servo assisted
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• Citroën U23
  ...f '''Type 23'''s after the declaration of World War II. At the time of the German invasion, more than 12,000 '''Type 23''' had been delivered in less than te Certain [[automobile|vehicles]] come in different trim levels or body styles. Features and major options
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• Riley
  ...aeroplane engines and became a key supplier in Britain's buildup for World War I. In 1918, after the war, the Riley companies were restructured. Nero joined Riley (Coventry) as the
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• Bedford Vehicles
  ...substantial export sales of light, medium, and heavy trucks throughout the world. It was [[GM Europe]]'s most profitable venture for several years. ...trucks manufactured at their Canadian works. This enabled them to import vehicles into Britain under Imperial Preference, which favoured products from the Br
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• Steering
  ...t types of vehicles, for example, a tiller or rear–wheel steering. Tracked vehicles such as tanks usually employ differential steering — that is, the tracks ...circulating ball mechanism, which is still found on [[trucks]] and utility vehicles. This is a variation on the older worm and sector design; the [[steering co
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• Glas
  '''Hans Glas GmbH''' is a former German automotive company, which was based in Dingolfing. After World War II, the market for sowing machines was getting smaller and smaller. So the com
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• Autobahn
  ...is the German word for a major high-[[speed]] [[road]] restricted to motor vehicles and having full control of access, similar to a [[motorway]] or [[freeway]] ...e general speed limits of 130 km/h and 120 km/h (75 mph), respectively. In German, the word is pronounced as described above, and its plural is ''Autobahnen'
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• Alvis Saracen
  :'''Mk 5''' Mark 1 or Mark 2 vehicles modified with extra armour specifically for use in Northern Ireland. ...ured car in the 1964 film ''633 Squadron'', which was set during World War II, a decade before the Saracen was first built.
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• Amphibious vehicle
  ...lthough they ''are'' part of ''amphibious assault''. Nor are Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans. The former don't offer any real land transportation a ...ody configurations or other unconventional designs such as screw-propelled vehicles which use auger-like barrels which propel a vehicle through muddy terrain w
  27 KB (4,252 words) - 07:44, 14 March 2010
• Hardtop
  ...nter, although it was a cumbersome and laborious job. By the time of World War I some automakers offered a lift-off roof, typically with a wood frame, can ...30s, detachable hardtops with metal roofs began to appear. After World War II, the availability of new types of plastic and fiberglass allowed lighter, e
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• Radial engine
  ...Jacob Ellehammer used his experience constructing motorcycles to build the world's first air-cooled radial engine, a 3-cylinder engine which he used as the ...before World War I, but the Germans seemed to lose faith in the type under war conditions, or it may have been that insistence on standardization ruled ou
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• Supercharger Engine
  ...than any other consideration, such as [[Top Fuel|top-fuel dragsters]] and vehicles used in tractor pulling competitions, positive displacement [[Supercharged ...acing cars, with the first [[Supercharged Engine|supercharged]] production vehicles being built by [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]] and [[Bentley Motors Limited|Bent
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• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
  ...27 March 1998 in Zell am See), mainly known as '''Ferry Porsche''', was an German-Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He opera ...ing labors, the company manufactured automobiles and, eventually, became a world powerhouse for producing sport cars.
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• Alvis Firebird
  ...t.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alvisoc.org/Site%20Files/Alvis%20Cars/Pre-War/FireflySixteen.htm|title=The Firefly and Firebird|accessdate=2008-08-10}}</ ...39 World War II halted Alvis car production to make aircraft engines and a German Luftwaffe bomb destroyed the Alvis car factory in 1940.<ref name="Alvis car
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• Vauxhall
  ...ompany was characterised by its sporting models, but after the First World War, designed more austere models. ...h to the 1980s. [[Bedford Vehicles]], a subsidiary constructing commercial vehicles, was established in 1930 as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 had made importi
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• MG
  ...MG T#TD|MG TD]], and [[MG T#TF|MG TF]], all of which were based on the pre-war [[MG T#TB|MG TB]], with various degrees of updating. MG departed from its earlier line of Y-Type saloons and pre-war designs and released the [[MG A|MGA]] in 1955. The [[MG B|MGB]] was releas
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• Jaguar D-Type
  ...guar following a stint with the Bristol Aeroplane Company during World War II. Although he also worked on the C-Type, the limitations of the conventional ...ous endurance race of the time. As soon as it was introduced to the racing world in 1954, the D-type was making its presence felt. For the [[1954 24 Hours o
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• Zastava Koral
  In 2006, the Zastava Koral In was crash tested at a German facility. Sources say the Koral In actually passed the tests thanks to airb ...n continued until 1941 when World War II reached Yugoslavia. Following the war Zastava was permitted to produce Jeeps under license from [[Willys-Overland
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