Schasche cycle car

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Schasche cycle car
View of the engine and chain drive
engine

The Schasche cycle car is a racing car .

Manufacturer

Alois Schasche was the importer of the Belgian motorcycle company Saroléa for Austria in the 1920s . The location information Möllwaldplatz 5, Favoritenstraße 30 and the 4th district of Vienna can be found on an advertising poster . He offered automobiles , motorcycles , bicycles , pneumatics and all accessories . In 1929 he presented a cycle car at the Vienna spring fair . Officially registered driving tests to break the existing world record (108 km / h) in the cycle car class with a displacement of up to 500 cm³ should be undertaken with the vehicle in the course of spring. Neunkirchner Allee location in Vienna. It is not known whether more than one vehicle was built.

vehicle description

The vehicle is a single-seat racing car. It is powered by a single-cylinder engine from Saroléa with a displacement of 500 cm³ , which is mounted on the side outside the frame and drives the left rear wheel. The power is transmitted by means of a chain. The Saroléa racing engine 23 U presented in 1928 was used . It made about 25 hp.

Schasche used the vehicle in races in Austria. A photo shows it together with the Karner Cyclecar , which Anton Rupert Karner manufactured in 1929, on the Viennese trotting arena. The vehicle still exists today.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schasche-Cyclecar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Wolfgang M. Buchta: Formula Ö. Racing car from Austria. Austro Classic Special Issue No. 3.
  2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  3. ↑ Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Automobil Zeitung of April 1, 1929. Annual overview p. 84.