INDEPENDENT SUSPENSION
Independent wheel suspension now finds a place on every European racing car built for this season's events, or under construction. Germany led the way in this respect, when last year she produced' the Mercedes-Benz and the Auto Union cars. The former make uso of coil springs, with a parallelogram attachment to the frame, the system being practically identical with that used on the firm's stock cars. Auto Union employed torsion bar suspension in front and a very broad transverse spring at the rear. The rear suspension, however, was adopted to Bave time, the idea being originally to use torsion bar suspension nil round. In view of the higher speed of the German cars, the Italians were obliged to build new cars and to modify the existing models. Independent wheel suspension only entered indirectly into the problem which was one of power-weight ratio, but in view of the better road holding ability of the new German cars and the reduced tyre wear, it was forced on th« Italian makers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22172, 27 July 1935, Page 11 (Supplement)
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