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Andre V6 | Pre War British Sports Cars


One of the last attempts to market a super-sports twin-cylinder car before World War 2 broke out was made in 1934, when T. B. Andre produced his rapid little 728-c.c. (70 x 95-mm.) vehicle in limited numbers, and only to special order. The Andre V6 was fairly successful in competitions, and it managed the best sports-car time at an early Bugatti O.C. hill-climb, collecting a premier in the "Edinburgh," and a first-class award in the "Land's End," and also annexing a trophy in the Monte Carlo Rally.

The J.A.P. engine was water-cooled and had overhead valves. It pushed out some 28 b.h.p. at 4500 r.p.m., and, as the com­plete car weighed a mere 9-cwt., performance was of a decidedly sporting order. The " chassis " was very ingenious, there being no frame as we know it, the steel body floor acting as a support for the body, and as a location for the rear, reversed, double- cantilever springs. The front wheels were independently sprung by means of a single transverse leaf spring, controlled by large "Andre" friction-type shock absorbers. The four-speed gearbox, torque tube and rear axle were in one unit, pivoting from a " Silentbloc" bearing under the engine. No universal joints whatsoever were used in the transmission, and the final drive culminated in a normal spiral-bevel rear axle with differential.

The car was an obvious compromise between a sports three-wheeler. and an out-and-out sports car, and there is no doubt that had the makers taken the trouble to develop the design properly it would have filled a long-felt want for a really potent small-scale sports car, economical to run and comparatively easy to maintain.
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