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Erling Poppe
Erling Poppe (12 November 1898 – 1970) was an Austrian-born English-raised motor vehicle designer who studied engineering in Birmingham, England, and designed Packman & Poppe Motorcycles, Sunbeam S7 and S8, Sunbeam motorcycles and Gordon (1954-1958), Gordon three-wheeler cars. Early life Poppe was born in Steyr, Austria, 12 November 1898, the son of Norwegian Peter August Poppe and Frederikke Emilie Poppe,1911 census Findmypast while his father had been on loan to Steyr Mannlicher. The whole family were settled in Coventry by February 1901 when their next child was born. Motor cycles At Packman & Poppe Motorcycles in 1922 Erling Poppe was responsible for their first motorcycle which featured a 250 cc two-stroke engine, a 976 cc side-valve machine with a JA Prestwich Industries, JAP V-twin engine in 1923 and the ''Silent Three'' using a 350 cc Barr and Stroud sleeve-valve engine. Poppe designed the Sunbeam S7 and S8 motorcycles based on the BMW R75 designs that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunbeam S8 1951
A sunbeam, in meteorological optics, is a lightbeam, beam of sunlight that appears to radiate from the position of the Sun. Shining through openings in clouds or between other objects such as mountains and buildings, these beams of light scattering by particles, particle-scattered sunlight are essentially parallel (geometry), parallel shafts separated by darker shadowed volumes. Their apparent convergence in the sky is a visual illusion from linear perspective. The same illusion causes the apparent convergence of parallel lines on a long straight road or hallway at a distant vanishing point. The scattering particles that make sunlight visible may be air molecules or particulates. Crepuscular rays ''Crepuscular rays'' or ''god rays'' are sunbeams that originate when the sun is just below the horizon, during twilight hours. Crepuscular rays are noticeable when the contrast between light and dark is most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word "crepusculum", meaning twili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
