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www.the-rumbler.com/Mates/Zippel/CHRR/RaceDisplay/Larsen%20and%20Cummins%20Streamliner.jpg
www.speedtrialsbybub.com/streamliner.gif
http://home.freeuk.net/s-parrott/po-images/omv26.jpg
http://home.st.net.au/~fettesi/m2002.jpg
www.bikemagic.com/news/images/ib03_streamline_big.jpg
www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/fta/b299-11.jpg
www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/patrimoine/auto_union/wanderer/wanderer_racing_car/wanderer_streamline_specials_04.jpg
www.monsterdesign.co.kr/image/streamline.jpg
www.jubyshallmark.com/car1/qhg6306.jpg
www.eurasia85.be/test/nieuweversiefotoalbum/mc%20quay-norris%20streamliner%201934.jpg
www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/racing2001/Indy-berls-streamliner.jpg
www.svvs.org/eocars/eoc16.jpg
www.germancarfans.com/classics/5040331.021/5040331.021.1M.jpg
This'll keep you busy. Charming attempts are they?
www.speedtrialsbybub.com/streamliner.gif
http://home.freeuk.net/s-parrott/po-images/omv26.jpg
http://home.st.net.au/~fettesi/m2002.jpg
www.bikemagic.com/news/images/ib03_streamline_big.jpg
www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/fta/b299-11.jpg
www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/patrimoine/auto_union/wanderer/wanderer_racing_car/wanderer_streamline_specials_04.jpg
www.monsterdesign.co.kr/image/streamline.jpg
www.jubyshallmark.com/car1/qhg6306.jpg
www.eurasia85.be/test/nieuweversiefotoalbum/mc%20quay-norris%20streamliner%201934.jpg
www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/racing2001/Indy-berls-streamliner.jpg
www.svvs.org/eocars/eoc16.jpg
www.germancarfans.com/classics/5040331.021/5040331.021.1M.jpg
This'll keep you busy. Charming attempts are they?
www.dlra.org.au/2002.htm
www.dlra.org.au/events/speedtrials2002-004.jpg
Never heard of a Belly Tank . . . looks like big fun!
www.dlra.org.au/events/speedtrials2002-004.jpg
Never heard of a Belly Tank . . . looks like big fun!
I did my Degree thesis about the streamline movement. Basically, when the DC3 came along in the middle of the depression, it represented a visual expression of an exciting future. Hence everything got streamlined to look "a bit" like the DC3, and a lot of things were designed to a teardrop form, in the mistaken belief that this was the perfect aerodynamic shape. Guys like Norman Bel Geddes, Richard Buckminster Fuller, and to a lesser extant Raymond Loewy, postulated that cars only had their engines in the front as a hangover from when carriages were horse drawn - they imagined it would be much better (simpler drivetrain, less cabin noise) if the engine was at the back. These ideas were largely overlooked in conservative Detroit, but found favour in Europe where Porsche and Tatra built cars along these lines. So, as far as cars go, probably the best example of the streamline legacy is the Porsche 911.
Fullers Dymaxion car seen here on the left (obviously)
Fullers Dymaxion car seen here on the left (obviously)
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