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Luis Renault was a mechanic with De Dion when he started playing with his De Dion motorcar He built a new chassis with independent suspension on all four wheels and mounted front engine instead of the back and replaced the drive chain with a transmission shaft.
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For first in the Southern Hemisphere In 1896, in what is believed to have been the first car in the southern hemisphere, John Percy Hess Pretoria decided to import a Benz Velo Benz Co Mannheim in Germany in South Africa during the same year, the car was shipped to Port Elizabeth and transported to Pretoria was the beginning of a business relationship that lead to M. Hess becomes the exclusive agent for Co Benz in South Africa.
On Monday, 4 January 1897 at 16 hours Berea Park in Pretoria, in a widely publicized event, John Percy Hess first drove the car with Mr AE Reno his business partner and co-founder of Pretoria News, and Dr. WJ Leyds, then Secretary of State of the Transvaal, as passengers President Paul Kruger was also invited to ride on the car, but he preferred to just watch the event.
In honor of President Paul Kruger presence a flag was attached vierkleur to a post on the carriage and a gold medal was struck to commemorate the occasion, a large number of spectators who came to see the show had to pay entrance fee of 2s and 6 pennies.
The following week, the Benz was shown at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, then sold to Mr. AH Jacobs, a coffee importer Every customer who bought coffee 500g his shop in Pritchard Street was allowed to see his car Unfortunately, a few months later car was destroyed in a fire.
First Ford exported to a country outside of North America The first Ford to arrive in South Africa was a 1903 Ford Model A, which was imported by Arthur Youldon Johannesburg.
In September 1903 M. Youldon, importer, was in New York where he saw Henry Ford show his new car he immediately placed his order with Henry Ford, who informed him that he would be the first Ford to be sold outside of North America Ford Motor company was founded earlier this year, June 16, 1903.
The car only arrived in February 1904 in Port Elizabeth where he had to be transported by train to Johannesburg This car has survived to this day and can be accessed at the Franschhoek Motor Museum in Cape Town, which has a large screen covering 100 years of cars in South Africa.
The first two Ford workers in South Africa are considered Arkell Douglas Port Elizabeth and Georges Chapart Durban M. Chapard, a French, traveled through Natal and later the Orange Free State, the sale of the People Ford model N, the predecessor of the model T.
Other first Ford dealers followed, as Mr. H G Holmes Kimberley who later moved to Cape Town and Bloemfontein Atkinson Motor Garages, which were later incorporated into the McCarthy group of companies.
Since the establishment of Ford in 1904, received the task Ford of Canada by Henry Ford to provide vehicle driving right at all British colonies, possessions and protectorates Ford US never provided kits because RHD American factories were intended only for the production of HDL.
In July 1923 Mr. Charles Holmes and Mr. HFA Stockelbach visited the Ford plant in Canada to study the possibility of starting an assembly plant in South Africa, as a preferential tax and tariff on Commonwealth countries, it is advantageous to assemble kits Canadian in South Africa.
This was achieved in February 1924, when an old wool packing shed in Port Elizabeth was used to start assembling the Ford Model Ts.
South own car with GSM Dart Flamingo Bob van Niekerk successfully Africa, Willie Meissner and Vester Wit conceived and designed this car in 1956 when they formed the GSM company and began manufacturing the first two prototypes in 1957. The car turned out to be almost unbeatable in south Africa, and various racing circuits in Europe.
The cars have been launched as open cars and a removable hardtop only followed later Flamingo was a development and different in many ways.
Many of these cars have survived in South Africa and in the UK, USA and Canada Protea.
This sports car engine Ford made his first official appearance in Motor Spring show Milner Park Johannesburg in 1957. The car was designed and developed by John Myers, Robert Hudson and Dr. Alan Roy.
During the 1970s, a Cape company InterMotorMakers IMM became known for assembling the Lamborghini and Lotus cars from CKD kits.
IMM The main driving force was a archtect named Gerrie Steenkamp who, in collaboration with National Rally driver known Nic de Waal an engineer who practice today as a naval architect set about to create a sports car two seats This is known today as the Caracal.
The car is built on a platform VW Golf GTi 16V and uses VW mecanicals An interesting fact is that the Caracal is built back to front ie rear end of the Caracal is front end of the Golf before conversion results in a mid-engine layout cabin is also made with seats, instrument panel, etc. resulting in a true professional, ready product for the Gulf market.
I think some of these 4 beautiful cars were made a destruction-tested by Volkswagen, it was sent to Germany VW, it was destroyed in an accident and the show-model survived.
When I bought the Caracal, it was in a fairly good condition during road because of great importance of the car in automotive history of South Africa, however, I decided to put the car through a complete restoration this, unfortunately, went wrong and I have to redo most of the work now, I'm hoping to get the restoration done quickly and correctly this time.
Old definitions cars Vintage cars - built before December 31, 1904 former Cars fighters - Built between Jan. 1, 1905 Dec. 31, 1918 Vintage cars - Built between Jan. 1, 1919 Dec. 31, 1930 Cars Post-Vintage - Built between January 1, 1931 31 December 1945 post-45 Cars - Built between 1 January 1946 31 December 1960 post-60 cars - built after January 1, 1961.
Renault got a patant on this configuration and in 1899 he began to build his own car business was good in 1900 and Luis managed to sell more than 200 cars which was quite a feat France was the largest country automobile manufacturing in 1903 with 30 000 cars, 780 of which were built by 600 workers at the Renault plant only ten years later, in 1913, more than 10 000 cars were built by 15,200 workers Renault expanded in the construction of bus and truck and during the first World war, they also built small tanks and aircraft engines in 1939, the company introduced self supporting body with independent suspension in 1940, the company employed more than 40,000 workers Renault company was expropriated in 1945 by General de Gaulle.
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