Manufacture of small-sized cars. Hand control systems

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It did not represent any difficulties for all who drove various cars of local manufacture, as an exception only manual button of management throttle zaslonkoj which the majority of the American car factories has refused in the first post-war years served. ' Falkon ' on 915 mm was shorter than model ' Edzel ' (to which it often compared) and at weight of 1135 kg on 635 kg it is easier. It had the 6-cylinder engine capacity of 90 l. With, then as the motor ' Edzel ' was more than twice more powerfully.

Nevertheless the difference in the prices between them though existed, was not so big. Equipped with an automatic transmission ' Falkon ' could there is about 2300 dollars whereas the price ' Edzel ' with the same equipment made hardly less than 3 thousand dollars, but on it, a truth, allowed the discount in some honeycombs of dollars. The company ' Ford ' made extreme efforts reducing the price on ' Falkon ' (in which preservation of out-of-date system of a hand control throttle zaslonkoj was considered), however it was not possible to it to lower it below magic figure in 2 thousand dollars

Trade in model ' Falkon ' went smartly, but the company could not achieve the general success in sale of all models. Some months 1959 have been sold for the last more than 100 thousand cars of model ' by Falkon ', and next year - over 500 thousand piece, that is more than compact cars of corporations ' Dzheneral the motor ' and ' a Crysler ' together taken.