wheel question.. why is width and diameter in inches but.....................

[Steve Sears]

Kent,
If ya really want to get histerical...er...historical about it, it was
Frenchman Nicholas Cugnot who produced the first front-wheel drive "car" in
1769 - more like a massve steamroller than a car, it had a steam driven
engine as the front wheel, and was steered by a tiller - the tiller was
extremely difficult to manipulate (in the ol' pre-pentosin days) and on it's
first outing it crashed into a garden wall, producing the first "car
accident" in history.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DampfKraftWagen (~SteamPoweredCar!) Junior deLuxes

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Kent McLean <kentmclean at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: RE : wheel question.. why is width and diameter in inches
> but.....................
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Cc: John Larson <j.d.larson at verizon.net>
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> John Larson wrote:
> > TT said:  "3- FWD cars are an European invention (since the 30s with
> > Citroen)."
> >
> > Harry Miller developed and ran an FWD race car in late 1924, paving the
way
> > for all FWD applications since.
>
> Thanks, Google:
> <http://www.lightauto.com/front%20wheel%20drive.html>
>
> There was the Latil et Riancey displayed at the Salon de
> I'Automobile in Paris in 1899. "M. de Riancey has started
> from the principle that it is more sensible to pull than
> to push his voiturette."
>
> And then there is Porsche: "Another interesting but limited
> concept, was the Lohner-Porsche "Mixed" of 1901. A development
> of the Lohner electric car, that used electric motors in the
> hubs to drive the front wheels."
>
> As they say, everything old is new again.
>
> --
> Kent McLean
> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
> '56 Austin-Healey 100 BN2, for sale