Tama senior

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Senior
Production period: 1948-1951
Class : Lower middle class
Body versions : limousine
Engines: Electric motor :
4.4 kW
Length: 4200 mm
Width: 1570 mm
Height: 1565 mm
Wheelbase : 2400 mm
Empty weight : 1776 kg

The Tama senior ( Jap. たまセニア , Tama Senia ) was a car of the compact class , which the Tōkyō Denki Jidosha KK (English Tokyo Electric Motor Car Co. dt. Tokyo Electric Vehicles & Co. ) in Japan 1948-1951 as a larger successor made their first electric vehicle Tama E4S-47 . In 1949, the automobile manufacturer, named after its manufacture Tama in Tokyo in Tama Denki Jidosha (dt. Electric vehicles Tama um). Later it became the Prince Jidōsha Kōgyō (English Prince Motor Company , dt. Prince Motor Company ).

Unlike the smaller brother Tama Junior , which was only a consistent further development of the company's first electric vehicle, the senior was the manufacturer's first mid-range model with an all-steel body in the shape of a pontoon in the style of the contemporary Fiat 1400 with five seats and four front-hinged doors. The windshield was split and inclined in a V-shape. Like the smaller junior, the senior had no indicators, but indicators attached to the A-pillars.

The drive power of the electric motor installed at the front was 6.0 HP (4.4 kW). The car reached a top speed of 55 km / h and a range of 200 km.

At the end of 1951, the production of electric vehicles was stopped. The successor to the Tama Senior was the Prince Sedan in 1952 , which had a slightly modified body, but was equipped with an internal combustion engine and thus achieved significantly better performance.

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