Riley Pathfinder

Riley
Pathfinder
Sales designation:	Riley Pathfinder
Production period:	1953-1957
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	limousine
Engines:	Otto engine : ; 2.4 liters (81 kW)
Length:	4648 mm
Width:	1702 mm
Height:	1520 mm
Wheelbase :	2883 mm
Empty weight :	1549 kg
Previous model	Riley RMF
successor	Riley 2.6

The Riley Pathfinder was a Riley passenger car .

description

The model replaced the Riley RMF as an upper middle class vehicle in 1953 .

It was planned as the "Riley RMH" and was designed in 1952 as the last actual Riley automobile before the Nuffield Organization and Austin merged to form the British Motor Corporation . It has the "Big Four" - 4-cylinder OHV in-line engine of its predecessor with two camshafts and 2443 cm³ displacement. This develops 110 bhp (81 kW) in the Pathfinder and accelerates the car to 161 km / h. It had a separate frame with independent suspension with torsion bar springs at the front and a rigid axle with coil springs at the rear (leaf springs instead towards the end of production). From 1956 there was an optional automatic transmission.

With this body, the Wolseley 6/90 also appeared in 1953 , like the Riley designed by Morris by (Gerald Palmer).

In 1957 the Pathfinder was replaced by the short-lived Riley 2.6 , which was also derived from the Wolseley 6/90.

literature

David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: Complete Catalog of British Cars. 1895-1975. New edition. Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 .

Web links

Commons : Riley Pathfinder - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: Complete Catalog of British Cars. 1895-1975. New edition. Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 .

[CulshawHorrobin-1] David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: Complete Catalog of British Cars. 1895-1975. New edition. Veloce Publishing plc., Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 .