Standard Superior

Standard Superior (1934 )

The Standard Superior is a small car, the motorcycle factory default built from 1933 to 1935.

Technology

The small hatchback had two seats and two rear -hinged doors. The body rested on a central tubular frame which was equipped with a full swing axes. The car had four wheel disc wheels. Had the model 1933, an upright windshield was this inclined obliquely backward from 1934. Also fenders and door openings were streamlined designed from this vintage and installed two additional side windows behind the doors.

The model had a 400 mounted in the rear, water-cooled two-cylinder two -stroke engine with 396 cc ( bore x stroke = 60 mm × 70 mm) and made 12 hp (8.8 kW) at 3600 rpm. There was also the model 500 with 494 cc ( bore × stroke = 67 mm × 70 mm) and a power of 16 hp ( 11.8 kW) at 3600 rpm. Through a multi-disc dry clutch and a four-speed gearbox, the engine power was applied to the narrow rear axle ( track width: 950 mm) forwarded that dispensed with a differential gear.

The 400 spent an average of 7 liters per 100 km, two-stroke mixture, reaching a maximum speed of 70 km / h At 500, the corresponding values ​​were 8 liter two-stroke mixture and 80 km / h

History

When the motorcycle factory in their first automobile, which had been constructed by Josef Full imagined, was the Great Depression, at least for Germany, already ended. Therefore, this minimalist vehicle did not bring a resounding sales success, especially since the selling price RM 1590 - was only slightly below the larger car.

In 1933, only 360 copies sold and over the next two years, sales were not much bigger. Finally, the production was set in 1935 with no successor.

Source

Werner Oswald: German cars from 1920 to 1945. 10th edition, engine book publishing house Stuttgart 1996. ISBN 3-87943-519-7, pp. 358-359