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Mysteriously Buried Cars & Other Vehicles
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/mysteriously-buried-cars-other-vehicles.67143/
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A "Gyrocar" is a 2-wheeled enclosed car that maintains its balance using one or more gyroscopes. It's not the same thing as an enclosed motorcycle or motorized trike. The notion of a 2-wheels gyrocar has been an elusive futuristic / mad science concept for over a century. Multiple gyrocars and gyrocar-style monorail vehicles have been proposed and promoted, but only a handful were ever actually built and demonstrated.
This story concerns the first functional gyrocar - the conceptual brainchild of a Russian count and gyroscope enthusiast who believed gyrocars would make good all-terrain vehicles for the Russian Army, transformed into a demonstration prototype by the UK firm Wolseley from 1912 through 1914.
The Great War interrupted the R&D effort, and Wolseley buried the world's first (somewhat) functional gyrocar. More than 2 decades later they disinterred it, then scrapped it another decade after that.
Here's the full weird saga ...
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/20...-gyro-car-because-it-ran-out-of-storage-space
Mysteriously Buried Cars & Other Vehicles
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/mysteriously-buried-cars-other-vehicles.67143/
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A "Gyrocar" is a 2-wheeled enclosed car that maintains its balance using one or more gyroscopes. It's not the same thing as an enclosed motorcycle or motorized trike. The notion of a 2-wheels gyrocar has been an elusive futuristic / mad science concept for over a century. Multiple gyrocars and gyrocar-style monorail vehicles have been proposed and promoted, but only a handful were ever actually built and demonstrated.
This story concerns the first functional gyrocar - the conceptual brainchild of a Russian count and gyroscope enthusiast who believed gyrocars would make good all-terrain vehicles for the Russian Army, transformed into a demonstration prototype by the UK firm Wolseley from 1912 through 1914.
The Great War interrupted the R&D effort, and Wolseley buried the world's first (somewhat) functional gyrocar. More than 2 decades later they disinterred it, then scrapped it another decade after that.
Here's the full weird saga ...
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/20...-gyro-car-because-it-ran-out-of-storage-space
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