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Re: PN #58
« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2010, 03:46:24 PM »
No, it's not an Ales. Sorry, I forgot to reply earlier.
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Re: PN #58
« Reply #26 on: March 28, 2010, 01:17:06 AM »
"that could narrow it down.  Is the first letter of name in the A-L range?"

"narrow - you almost nailed it" - I meant you almost found out the name of the car by accident...

"It's somewhere in the A-F range"

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Re: PN #58
« Reply #27 on: March 29, 2010, 08:48:20 AM »
Arrow?   ;)
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Re: PN #58
« Reply #28 on: March 29, 2010, 10:11:21 AM »
When Koichi Yano, then a 4th year student at Fukuoka Industrial College, was asked by the industrialist Yoshitaro Murakami to repair his French-built De Dion-Bouton automobile, it set him down the road of researching and designing his own vehicle. Yano took the rear-engine rear-wheel drive De Dion-Bouton and converted into a front-engine rear-wheel drive car, before drawing up blueprints based on a small British-made car (possibly an Austin Baby). Borrowing manufacturing facilities from Murakami's operations, Yano succeeded in building his own car in 1916 using De Dion-Bouton parts. The car, called Arrow featured a two-cylinder water-cooled engine, built under the instruction of Professor Iwaoka at Kyushu University, with manufacturing support from the university's machine shop. It also had a carburetor manufactured by Zenith in France, a Bosch Magneto ignition device as the spark plug, and wheels and tires originally designed for use with motorbikes. The car was used for approximately 2 years by the people who had backed its construction, and it even obtained a government license.
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Re: Solved: PN #58 -- Arrow, 1916
« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2010, 03:39:16 PM »
And that, folks, is the most uncertain, long-shot AutoPuzzle guess I ever made that turned out to be right...
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Re: Solved: PN #58 -- Arrow, 1916
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