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Solved: Wendax 527 - Fouga Monocab
« on: March 23, 2012, 03:14:09 AM »
Another very basic mode of transportation.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Re: Wendax 527
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 02:21:04 AM »
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Re: Wendax 527
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 02:42:29 AM »
It is another much obscure say, 'project' of microcar...
In fact, I've discovered its existence on a very famous auction website. I guess it is the same for you, Wendax !

It is the Monocab, built by les Etablissements Fouga & Cie, aka Les Ateliers d'Aviation d'Aire-sur-Adour. The advertisement I've seen is saying it is built under "Armand Citroën licence".
This is quite weird, because I've read some tiny bits here and there about the Joseph Citroën Monocab. Joseph Citroën was a cousin of André Citroën. The Joseph Citroën looked quite like the "Fouga/Armand Citroën".

So, was it his brother ? Were they worked together on the same car ?

Strangely, the name "Fouga" is quite well know too, but in the airplane industry : they made the "Magister", the very first training jet-plane, built for the apprenticeship of pilots.

The document printed for the Monocab says it used a 2-stroke, 1-cylinder engine, a patented suspension and is able to get to 40 km/h...
I don't know when this small brochure was made, but Joseph Citroën made some advertisements for the Monocab in 1954...
If anybody knows anything more, or have some pictures of the Joseph/Armand Citroën, I'd love to see and read it !  ???
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Re: Wendax 527
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2012, 02:55:38 AM »
Nothing for me to add except the picture of the brochure. As you have guessed correctly, I discovered it on that well-known auction site.

Well done, cmetisse. Here's another "microdot" for you.  :D
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Re: Solved: Wendax 527 - Fouga Monocab
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2012, 03:48:03 AM »
I've read somewhere that the first attempt to show the Monocab was in 1946, but I cannot find much more about it. If someone has the (quite interesting !) book "les voitures hors-série", by Borgé & Viasnoff, I remember that there is a bit on the Monocab. I don't have it, though...
Moreover, I've found the patent for the car and suspension, it was filed as late as 1955.

But the file is quite short, it only gives a very vague description of the chassis, which used Neiman rubber rings as springing medium... You can read it below, if you ever want to know...  ;D
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