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Violet was the motor car industry’s most persistent exponent of the 2-stroke air-cooled engine, producing a succession of designs for various concerns. It speaks well for them that one, the Sima-Violet car, enjoyed some success, even though the Sima-Violet car was both unconventional and a late arrival on the cyclecar scene. The Sima-Violet car was powered by a very low-slung, air-cooled, horizontally-opposed 2-cylinder engine of less than a half a litre’s capacity. The 2-speed gearbox was on the back axle of the Sima-Violet car, and front suspension was by a single transverse spring. Alcyon built an identical 2-cylinder car as the Sima-Violet car. A 4-cylinder, 1½-litre racing Sima-Violet car, very low and modern in appearance, was offered in 1927.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; TRN
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