Originally Posted by
"Clevor" Angel
Everything before the 60's that was designed in a wind tunnel was for astetics, Rolls Royce even did it, I should've said it was the first designed for a specific purpose.
Sorry, C, but wherever you read that was wrong by many hundreds of cars
Could it have been Chrysler ? "Promoting" their engineering expertise ?
or watch out, Wikipedia claimed the Wrights "invented" the wind tunnel and yet Reynolds had been using one for 30 years prior to that !!!!
In the early years prestige cars were designed and built by aircraft manufacturers all over the world. Since early 1900s they all had wind tunnels. Full size model you may be right, I'm not sure. But Reynolds had shown how small scale models mapped to the real world and many models were tested in aero wind tunnels by these companies.
Anyway, one well recorded example was for Tatra in the 30s Dr Paul Jaray designed and tested streamlined automobiles in the wind-tunnel of the German Zeppelin works.
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