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Photographs from old newspapers
This is the traveling candy
shop of an Austrian nobleman. At the front is the living quarters
and at the back the shop.
(SOURCE: Quebec Chronicle, October 8, 1923, p. 8)
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Audi History
by Kalin Staikov
From GO Articles (http://www.goarticles.com/)
Audi is a car manufacturing
company with a big history. Data about it is provided in many places
today which come to say how proud the owners of this manufacturer
are. There are in fact many things that make them proud. The
foundation of the company is on 14 November 1899. This is the date
when August Horch (1868 - 1951) established the company A. Horch
& Cie which was the starting point of Audi that we know today.
This company was established in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne
where August Horch made his first car model. The car was finished
during 1901 and in March of the next year the company was moved to
Reichenbach in Saxony. Two years later the company was converted to
share-issuing company. During that time another change of location
took place. On the same year - 10 May 1904 a company in Zwicka was
established by the name A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagen-Werke AG. It
is interesting to know that right-hand drive originated from the age
of horses where carriages were used. The coachman sat in the
right-hand side of this vehicle and that was lately implemented in
the first car model August Horch developed but later Audi were the
first to offer another solution which came to be really better. This
solution is the left-hand driving. It made possible for safer way of
driving because the driver has a better view on the oncoming
traffic. All maneuvers are easier when using a left-hand driving and
this is the reason why even today it is most commonly used. The
first car which uses the left-hand drive is called Audi Type K and
this happened on 1921. The year 1926 is really significant because
during it the first eight-cylinder car was introduced by Horchwerke
AG of Zwickau. The Horch was the name of that car and it was the
first German eight-cylinder car to go into volume production. Paul
Daimler designed the engine with double overhead camshafts. They
were driven by shaft set vertically to the whole camshafts body.
This made possible for a 60 horsepower engine to be created. (continued
here)
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Advertisements from
old newspapers
"With the Motorola
entirely automatic heater, your car will alway be
confortable" says this ad further claiming that it takes
"32 seconds to reach a constant and controled heat"
(SOURCE: La Patrie (Montréal),
September 27, 1947, p. 50)
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