All posts tagged "1940s"

Fend

Fend Flitzer

In 1948, Fritz Fend in Rosenheim, Germany created a three-wheeled vehicle Fend Flitzer. Fend, a former...

Biscuter

Biscuter 100 / 200 A (Normal Turismo)

Despite what it meant in post-war Spain and its popular roots (which gave rise to jokes...

B&B

B&B Brogan Doodlebug

The “B&B Specialty Company” was an American company, located in the town of Rossmoyne (Ohio). After...

Auto Sandal

Auto Sandal FS

After World War II, and in the midst of the postwar period, the Japanese government had...

Atlas

Atlas Babycar

The Atlas was a 4-wheeled microcar produced by the Societe Industrielle de Livry (SIL). The prototype,...

Home built

Arnau

During the Spanish Civil War, Joan Arnau Vicens, a Catalan from the province of Girona, worked...

Alamagny

Alamagny Rhomboid

In 1947, the French engineer, Marcel Alamagny (engineer for Renault and Gordini), presented a curious prototype...

Home built

Favorit by László Vörös

As early as 1947, László Vörös made a three-wheeled family motorcycle, which ran for three years....

BDG

Dolo JB-10

The story of Dolo JB is a vivid example of a successful car swindle. In 1947,...

AFA

AFA Prototype

AFA (some sources affirm that it is the acronym for “Automobiles Fernández y Aymerich”, and other...

Rovin

Rovin Type D2

Rovin was a French auto-maker established in the Paris region, and most active from 1946 until...

Volugrafo

Volugrafo Bimbo

After the ending of the Second World War Italy was in terrible economic situation. But the...

Crosley

Crosley Farm-O-Road

At first glance, this small car seems like a funny garage craft made microcar for schoolchildren,...

Peugeot

Peugeot VLV

The two-seater Peugeot VLV (Voiture Légère de Ville, which means Light City Car) electric vehicle was...

DAF

DAF “Rijdende Regenjas”

The single-seat 3-wheeled microcar DAF “Rijdende Regenjas” was created in 1941/1942 by Hubert Van Doorn, founder...

Home built

Vellák

József Vellák from Nagykanizsa learned the locksmith’s profession in 1919 in the locksmith shop of György...

Home built

Endre Surányi dwarf cars

Everlasting, bohemian, versatile – Endre Surányi (1913-1996), who was a “garage master of Rákosi” and a...

Autoette

Autoette CruiseAbout

The Autoette Electric Car Co of Long Beach, California was founded by Royce Seevers in 1947....

Argson

Argson

Argson Engineering was founded in 1919. It was named from Argus of Baden, Germany’s small bus...

Aircraft Products

Airscoot

Certainly one of the smallest cars ever built, the ingenious Airscoot was designed in 1947 to...

Autocarene

Aerocarene 700

Aerocarene 700, the aircraft-inspired machine, featured highly unusual light alloy bodywork with very unconventional entry for...

Pente

Pente 600

János Pentelényi, learning from the mistakes of the Pente 500, made the larger and more powerful...

Pente

Pente 500

At the end of World War II, approx. in 1944 János Pentelényi started designing a small...

Ardex

Ardex Electric Cyclecars

The war years were characterised by a desperate shortage of raw materials for civilian industry and...

Home built

Arbet

“My car is no weird car,” wrote Jeff Gibson. “It is, by all standards, a normal...

André

André

This microcar is the creation of a Cannes industrialist P.André. He made it in 1941. It was...

Home built

Dózsa-Farkas András 3-wheeler

In 1950, Dózsa-Farkas András (1902-1982) started the industrial design training in Academy of Applied Arts, which is...

American Bantam

American Bantam Model 60 / 62 / 65

American Bantam company was a successor of the American Austin Car Company, which was connected to...

Altona

Altona Condor

The Altona was a Belgian car brand located in Borgerhout near Antwerp. Altona Motors Antwerp was founded at the end of the 1930s by Mr. De Belder,...

Albrecht

Albrecht

The Friedrich Albrecht Fahrzeugfabrik was a German manufacturer of wheelchairs and cars for the disabled. The company...

Larmar

Larmar

The Larmar microcar is probably the narrowest car ever built. It was produced from 1946 to 1951 by...

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Beetle

Surely the most extraordinary success story in the history of the automobile, Volkswagen Beetle began life...

Airway

Airway

The Airway was an American microcar with two seats, made by Everett Miller and T. P....

AC

AC All-Weather Tricycle

In 1949 AC made a prototype of All-Weather Tricycle for disabled people. It looked awesome and...

Alca

Alca Volpe

The design of this rare Volpe roadster made by Alca (Anonima Lombarda Cabotaggio Aereo) is very...

Velorex

Oskar / Velorex

The Czech manufacturer Velorex is probably best known for its sidecars but they also produced some...

Bond

Bond Minicar Mark A

After the war there was a great demand for powered transport coupled with shortages of fuel...