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Midget Auto. A three-wheeled, pne-seater auto, 67 in. long, 39 in. high, weighing 132 Ibs., is being manufactured by Egon Briitsak Fahrzeugbau of Stuttgart, Germany. With a plastic body, a 2.5-h.p. engine driving the front (single) wheel, and three speeds, the Briitsch-Mopetta hits a top speed of 24 m.p.h., averages 99 miles per gallon. The car is amphibious, has a paddle wheel attached to the front wheel for use when operating in water. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Lockheed already has the F-IO4 in full production, with the first operational squadron due for service sometime this year. It is also building a two-seater null version. Said Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining: "This is the most advanced plane of its type ever developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Starfighter | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Taxes and insurance on the Goggomobile, a $688 three-seater rolling off Isaria Maschinenfabrik's assembly lines at the rate of 70 a day, total "less than the price of four cigarettes" daily, according to Isar ia advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Midgets | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...sugar cane, drowsy town plazas seared to a dry-season brown, the jet air base near Maracay, and scenic Lake Valencia, a shimmering turquoise in a chartreuse valley. But most of the time Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of Venezuela, eyed a low, sleek, two-seater Mercedes-Benz sports car that rolled along with the cavalcade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Skipper of the Dreamboat | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...prewar days, with a little clubhouse and a field with light airplanes on it, people having tea under sunshades, and all that pleasant peaceful scene." Flying then was "something exciting and different, and we all wanted to go up in an airplane. It was of course a two-seater, open-cockpit.job . . . Our ardor might have been damped if our first experience of flying was sitting in a pressurized tube looking out of a small side window with 40 other people . . . There is far more exhilaration, fun and impression of speed in the open cockpit of a Tiger Moth doing 80 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Planes for Pleasure | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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