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1911 Bedelia 8HP 1911

Engine: V-type , 2 cylinders
Capacity: 1056 cc
Max. powered output: 9 bhp at 2400 rpm
Max speed: 60 km/h
Weight - 210 kg

This very special runabout with its wooden bodyshell covered in sheet steel and room for just the driver and one passeger in fronto of him was built between 1911 and 1914 by the small firm of Bourbeau and Devaux. It has a two-speed gearbox and bilateral chain drive, but no clutch nor reverse gear. To get out of mesh, you have to shift the rear axle forward with a lever so that the slackened chains could pass from one pulley to another and so change the gear ratio.
 
 

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