Renault Type O (b)

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Type O (b)
Production period:	1904
Class :	race car
Body versions :	Phaeton
Engines:	Petrol engines : 12.1 liters (44.1–66.2 kW)
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Empty weight :	950 kg
Previous model	Renault Type O
successor	Renault Type AE and Type AF

The Renault Type O (b) was an early racing car model from Renault . It was only available with a light, two-seater structure.

description

Renault introduced the Model 1904 as successor to the Renault Type O ago. The La France Automobile reported on September 21, 1904. successor was the Renault Type AE and its production model Renault Type AF .

A water-cooled four - cylinder engine with a 160 mm bore and 150 mm stroke produced 60 to 90 hp from a displacement of 12063 cm³ . Unusually for racing cars at the time, the engine power was fed to the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The maximum speed was given as 150 km / h.

The vehicle weighed 950 kg.

motor race

The American William Gould Brokaw fielded a 60 hp vehicle in the first Vanderbilt Cup race on October 8, 1904 on Long Island ( New York ) (start number 11). The driver was Brokaw's private chauffeur Maurice Bernin , and Felix Prossen drove as a mechanic . The vehicle failed with a broken cardan shaft. No other copies are known; both William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944), the initiator of the racing series, as well as Brokaw, however, suggested other Renault racing cars. The brand was then represented at the Vanderbilt Cup in 1905 ( Ferenc Szisz , 5th place) and 1908 ( Lewis Strang , failure).

literature

• Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Voitures Particulières. Tome 1: 1899-1905. Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1977, pp. 112-141.

Web links

• Report on vehicle and driver at www.hemmings.com (accessed April 17, 2018)
• Vehicle and driver report on theoldmotor.com with illustration (accessed April 17, 2018)
• Report on the vehicle and driver at the Vanderbilt Cup 1904 at www.vanderbiltcupraces.com (accessed August 18, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gilbert Hatry, Claude Le Maître: Dossiers Chronologiques Renault. Voitures Particulières. Tome 1: 1899-1905. Editions Lafourcade, Paris 1977.
2. ↑ Vanderbilt Cup Homepage: Renault # 11 (1904)
3. ↑ Vanderbilt Cup Homepage: Renault # 10 (1905)
4. ↑ Vanderbilt Cup Homepage: Renault # 17 (1908)