Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
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Chariot with scenes from the life of the Greek hero Achilles
Etruscan, Archaic, 2nd quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Found near Monteleone di Spoleto in 1902
Bronze inlaid with ivory; total height: 51 5/8 in. (131.1 cm); length of pole: 82 1/4 in. (208.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.23.1)
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RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
It's not a trick question.
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The engine mount look like they'll take quite a variety of power units.
Bill
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RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
I see. Perhaps they could be boosted somehow?
Avenues for investigation:
- higher calorific value fuels
- improving the coeff of friction between the power units and the road
- afterburning the increased waste gasses as a result of the higher cal value fuels
- a sharp stick
Bill
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http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
The Japanese word for rail car is transliterated as "sharyo" shar-y-o, which is pronounced remarkably similarly to chariot.
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Nick
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RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
No air conditioning, you're positioned right behind the power plant's exhaust, "fueling" took an hour in a grass field, no theft deterrent, and you couldn't leave it in the driveway unattended for months on end.
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RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
In highly aggressive driving conditions, it would be advantageous to attach the ancient equivalent of the spinner hubcap to the axle, if they were attached to the wheel when utilized in heavy traffic may cause undesireable effects on the users vehicle, as opposed to the defeding vehicle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner_(wheel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_tactics
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
A quick side ways move pushed the axle of one chariot into the wheel spokes of the other thus damaging the wheel and putting the opposition out of the running.
This assumes the opposition had not also thought of the same trick.
Bodacia (spelling?) was reputed to have had long blades fitted to the revolving hubs of her chariot to scythe through the rampaging hordes of the attackers.
Pete.
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
There are some zoomable pix at the Met muzeum.
RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
Re the oxen upgrade; That may exchange draw bar pull for velocity with the same or reduced HP.
Anyone have a current Hp to Op conversion chart?
Yours
Bill
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RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
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RE: Two-horspower collector's item (an automotive forerunner)
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