Oldsmobile 20th

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20th
Production period:	1909
Class :	Lower middle class
Body versions :	Touring car
Engines:	Otto engine : 2.7 liters (16 kW)
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Wheelbase :	2311 mm
Empty weight :	951 kg

The Oldsmobile Series 20 was a passenger car manufactured in model year 1909 by Oldsmobile , a GM company since 1908 . The new, small model was introduced at the instigation of GM as the emaciated derivative of a contemporary Buick .

The small car had a side-controlled four-cylinder in-line engine with a capacity of 2,704 cm³, which delivered an output of 22 bhp (16 kW).

As with the larger models, the engine power was transmitted to the rear wheels via a three-speed gearbox with a gearshift lever on the far right and a cardan shaft. The brake pedal worked on the cardan shaft, the handbrake lever on the drum brakes on the rear wheels. The Oldsmobile 20 was only supplied as a 4-door touring car. Acetylene lights , oil lamps and luggage racks were standard.

Of a total of 6,575 vehicles that Oldsmobile produced in 1909, 5,325 were from the 20 series. Nevertheless, this volume model disappeared the following year without replacement.

source

• Beverly R. Kimes, Henry A. Clark: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 .