Name That Chassis answers - Andy McBratlie wins again

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 01/02/2014 at 11:43 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The first is a GWK: Grice, Wood and Keiller from Maidenhead, Berkshire. It is most easily recognizable by the fact that all GWKs used a friction transmission with a very visible disk - though not all GWKs were rear engine, quite a few were, and the chassis pic bears that out as well. The GWK style of friction drive used compressed paper (still used for some surface clutches today) before the war, and after the war transitioned to the use of cork. A very similar type of CVT is used in the Snapper (R) riding lawn mower.

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This picture in online version is taken from uniquecarsandparts.com.au, but I first encountered it in the '74 World of Automobiles encyclopedia.

As to the second pic, it is the chassis of the 1914 Entz, the prototype of the Owen Magnetic.

Its transmission is likewise a CVT in effect, but depends on a system in which an electric armature driven by the motor provides current to another driving the rear wheels. Speed was through a variable control on the steering wheel. This system had some drawbacks and was functionally more complex than the drawing below would indicate.

Among the drawbacks were a lack of off-the-line torque - another being that the permanent arrangement of the system required a separate reverse gear. Still, the system provided starting, and allowed regenerative braking, hill-holding, and recharging of the battery all in one.