INTERESTING FACTS RELATED TO MECHANICAL AND AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING THAT BLOWS YOUR MIND.

1. 1. A Indian King took revenge on Rolls-Royce by using their cars to transport city’s waste.

      

      One day during his visit to London, King Jai Singh was walking in casual dress in Bond Street. He saw a Rolls Royce showroom and went inside to inquire about the Price and Features etc of their cars. Considering him a just another Poor Indian citizen, showroom salesmen insulted him and almost showed him the way out of the showroom. After this insult, King Jai Singh came back to his Hotel room and asked his servants to call the showroom that King of Alwar city is interested in purchasing their few Cars. After few hours King reached the Rolls Royce showroom again but with his full astonishing royal manner and in his royal costume. Until he reached the showroom there was already red carpet on the floor and all the salesmen were bent with respect. The King purchased all the six cars that they had at showroom at that time and paid full amount with delivery costs. After reaching India, King ordered municipal department to use all those six Rolls Royce cars for cleaning and transporting city’s waste. World’s number one Rolls Royce cars were being used for transportation of City’s waste, the news spread all over the world rapidly and the reputation of Rolls Royce Company was in drains. Whenever someone used to boast in Europe or America that he owned a Rolls Royce, people used to laugh saying, “which one? The that is used in India for carrying the waste of the City?” Due to such reputation damages, sales of Rolls Royce dropped rapidly and revenue of company owners started falling down. Then they sent a Telegram to the king in India for apologies and requested to stop transportation of waste in Rolls Royce cars. Not only this but they also offered Six new cars to king free of cost. When King Jai Singh observed that Rolls Royce has learnt a lesson and they are sorry for their mistakes, king stopped    using those cars for carrying wastes.

   2.   The “Traub,” the rarest motorcycle in the world

      

      The “Traub,” the rarest motorcycle in the world, was found behind a brick wall in Chicago in 1968, and still runs to this day.An examination from Dale Walksler  the current owner,          reveals it can be dated back to 1916. The engine’s technology was well ahead of its time, and even some mechanisms on it had never used on any other American motorcycle.

   3.   Hitler designed the prototype of Beetle design for Volkswagen

      

       

      Sitting at a restaurant table in Munich in the summer of 1932, Hitler designed the prototype for what would become the immensely successful Beetle design for Volkswagen (literally,      the “car of the people”). In an era where only the most economic elite possessed cars, Hitler believed that all people should be able to own a car and additionally thought that a smart     design could allow for reliability, enjoyment, and vacation travel. The name given to the car in 1938 was Kraft durch Freud.

   4.   The first car accident

                        The first car accident occurred in 1891, in Ohio.

                 5.  Ferrari Engines are Musically Engineered

Ferrari engines are musically engineered to sound perfect by utilizing 3rd and 6th harmonics on the air intake, like an organ or flute.

               6.  LAMBORGHINI Cars were a result of a Tractor Company Owner being insulted by the founder of  FERRARI

               7.  Royal Enfield logo

                    The original Royal Enfield logo featured a cannon, with the slogan “Made like a gun, goes like a bullet”. Suits a RE perfectly but the funny part is that this logo was also used on                                       lawnmowers that were manufactured by the company.

              8.   The first Lamborghini didn’t even have an engine when they unveiled it.

                   The 350 GTV may have been the world’s first Lambo, and ultimately, it led to the creation of the supercar genre, but when it was first unveiled at the Turin Auto Show it wasn’t even                             finished, so they put a bunch of bricks where the engine should have been and kept the hood shut the entire time.

             9.  Crash tests were first carried out by Audi.

                    In 1938, crash tests were first carried out by Audi. These tests gave the company an idea about how the car would behave in case an accident occurred. Without realizing it, the company                      had set a precedent for all other car manufacturers.

           10.   Most new cars fake engine noise through speakers. They are quite silent otherwise.

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