Brough Superior XII
Brough Superior | |
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XII | |
Presentation year: | 1938 |
Vehicle fair: | |
Class : | Upper class |
Body shape : | limousine |
Engine: |
Otto engine : 4.4 liters |
Length: | 5563 mm |
Width: | 1803 mm |
Wheelbase: | 3264 mm |
Production model: | none |
The Brough Superior XII was an automobile of the upper class , the Brough Superior built as a single piece 1938th
The car had a twelve-cylinder - V-type engine with laterally projecting valves and a displacement of 4378 cc (bore x stroke = 69.85 mm x 95.25 mm). Performance data are not known. The engine was bought in from the US automobile manufacturer Ford , who built this engine for its Lincoln-Zephyr series . The axles also came from Ford. They were rigid axles suspended from semi-elliptical springs. The wheelbase was 3264 mm, the track width 1461 mm.
The XII received a sedan body from Charlesworth Bodies in Coventry .
There was no series production. The unique piece has been preserved to this day.
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- David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 , p. 93.