Trojan Car - 1920s

[creamofcardstv]

Fun video! Thumbs up!

[nickelstew]

That was one maneuverable automobile!

[mageac]

3.point.turn...it.counted.11.p­oints:P

[cubanbrown]

Great Footage.

Pity you keep leaving those ghastly numbers and digits running all through this and your othe films!

[thomasking55]

Some facinating scenes. That suspension certainly isn't built for speed!

[mauser88mm]

I understand the Trojan engine had flexible connecting rods. How could that be? And if so what were the benefits. What was the bore and stroke? Thank you in advance.

[Mos6502]

The Trojan engine used split cylinders - that is two cylinders side by side shared a common combustion chamber. Typically, each piston for each of these cylinders would have had it's own con rod. and the big ends of both of these con rods would have met on a common crank on the crankshaft - in a V formation - the bottom of the V being the big end, and the tops being the small ends for the cylinders. The trojan used a single solid V con rod which had to bend very slightly with each revolution.

[subebrumby]

yes the conrods bend, no advantage really its just a consequence of the square four engine design.

4 cylinders, two spark plug, seven moving parts in the engine.