Aero 10

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Aero 10 (1930)
Aero 10 (1930)
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Production period: 1929-1932
Class : Small car
Body versions : Limousine , cabriolet
Engines: Otto engine
0.5 liter (7.4 kW)
Length: 3200 mm
Width: 1190 mm
Height: 1460 mm
Wheelbase : 2230 mm
Empty weight : 460 kg
successor Aero 18

The Aero 10 (also Aero 500 ) was a Czechoslovak automobile that was built by Aero from 1929 to 1932 .

It was the first vehicle of this brand and was developed from the enka . The Aero was also called "Klingler" (in Czech "Cinkac" or "Cililink") because of the typical sound of the manual starter.

The single-cylinder two-stroke engine had a displacement of 499 cm³ and made 10 hp. The rear axle did not have a differential gear and the brake only acted mechanically on the rear wheels. With rear-wheel drive and three-speed transmission, the car reached a top speed of around 70 km / h. The fuel consumption was 5 l / 100 km.

A total of 1360 copies were built.

Motorsport and long distance driving

Even before the vehicle was presented at the Prague Motor Show in October 1929, Bohumil Turek and Antonin Nahodil took part in the Prague - Paris - Brest - Prague rally (3613 km). Then they drove the route Prague - Hamburg - Prague (1300 km). They needed a total of 184 hours and 35 minutes for this trip, which corresponds to an average of 26.6 km / h. With that they achieved the overall victory. This made the brand and vehicle known throughout Europe . Turek then became the head of the testing department.

In the ADAC trip Berlin-Prague-Manzanares (Spain) and back, Turek achieved an average speed of 48.8 km / h in 1930, which corresponded to the class victory in the small car class. In the same year, an Aero works team took part in the rally on the occasion of the Prague Motor Show 1930, including the vehicle that had already traveled to Spain, and was able to win the brand ranking.

In the 1931 ADAC trip Berlin-Manzanares-Berlin, Turek was able to achieve overall victory ahead of second-placed Hans Stuck in a Mercedes-Benz .

In 1932, motor journalist František Alexander Elstner used the Aero 10 for an expedition to Albania . Elster completed the more than 3300 km long route with two co-drivers from Prague via Austria and Dalmatia to Albania and in a wide arc back to Prague.

Web links

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