Reference number
  • LAN/1/1/43
Level
  • Item
Date
  • 1938
Description
  • Interview describes his room at Oxford Road, Moseley, Birmingham. The views of Frederick Lanchester are given on: fashion in car design, type and position of engine (front or rear drive), the two-seater, the electric runabout, the diesel engine, the supercharger, the sleeve-valve and the poppet-valve engine, epicyclic gears, suspension. Lists features and devices to be found in the modern car which had their origin in Lanchester practice, with dates and patent numbers. [This list is not identical with the list reproduced in LAN/1/1/6, LAN/1/1/7/3 and LAN/1/1/20. Note misprint in list: 1891 should be 1901]. Includes images of the first. Includes image showing Lanchester portrait shots, first car and chassis, car going up Crystal Palace steps [1904], 16 h.p. air-cooled Lanchester, two-cylinder twin-cranshaft engine.
Extent and medium
  • 0