The Ansaldo was an Italian
automobile
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manufactured by the armaments concern
Gio. Ansaldo & C. from 1921 to 1931. The company entered car manufacture with an
OHC
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inline-four engine
A straight-four engine (also called an inline-four) is a four-cylinder piston engine where cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft.
The vast majority of automotive four-cylinder engines use a straight-four layout (with the ...
model which could develop at 3600
rpm
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Standards
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. A sports version with engine was offered, as was a six-cylinder version of 1991 cc; later six-cylinders were offered with engines of 2179 cc.
Among the company's last cars was an
OHV
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straight-8
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of . Ansaldos were generally of good quality and modern design, and competed in many races. When
Wikov Wichterle & Kovářik was a Czechoslovakian machinery manufacturer based in Prostějov. They produced cars and trucks from 1925 to 1937.
Development
František Wichterle founded a small factory in Prostějov, 1878 where he built agricultural veh ...
began manufacture in Czechoslovakia in 1928, they built the Ansaldo Tipo 10.
Vintage vehicles
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Italy
Gio. Ansaldo & C.
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