Morgan Three Wheeler Super Sports 1933 - almost like flying on the ground
Summary
The Morgan Three Wheeler was built between 1910 and 1953 in various versions with one, two or even four seats, only the three-wheeled layout with the single wheel at the rear remained constant, engines and body shapes changed. With independent suspension (from the beginning) and front brakes (from 1923), the robust Three Wheeler was a feared competitor on racetracks and a cost-effective alternative to many a sports car on the road. This report portrays a Morgan Three Wheeler Super Sports from 1933 and tells the story of the three-wheeled Morgan.
This article contains the following chapters
- Less is more
- Patent and first public appearances
- Racing success after racing success
- War interruption and restart
- Evolution instead of revolution
- World record
- More comfort
- Nothing to compare with
- Like flying on the ground
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Today, Morgan is regarded as a conservative company that produces new cars that look like classic cars and still uses - at least in part - the technology of the past. At the beginning, Morgan was an extremely innovative manufacturer that was at least two or three steps ahead of many large automobile factories. However, it was never quite clear whether a Morgan with three wheels - and all models were built in this way until 1935 - was actually a car or a motorcycle. How many wheels does an automobile need? One would say four, but one of them could easily be the steering wheel, at least that's how H.F.S. Morgan saw it when he developed his "Three Wheeler". However, the first models did not even have a steering wheel, they were steered with a linkage.
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