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Audi E 22/55
The video below gives an idea of the time and of low traffic in Amsterdam. In Germany, the First World War is over indeed but not its consequences. Inflation reached its peak, the Rhineland was occupied by the
French and threatened to be separated because Germany could not pay its reparations.
Therefore the Audi 22/55 was no new development. Only the brakes on the front wheels represented the state-of-the-art, at the time already something special. Apart from that, the car was indeed solid, but actually
heavy and old fashioned. It was already in production before the war began.
The engine was as pictured above assembled of two blocks of two per cylinder, although the Audi model G (pictured below) was available with weaker performance and also four cylinders in one piece already since
1914. Its valvetrain cannot even be described with side valves, because the inlet side was opened uncontrolled by vacuum.
No, this Audi is not intended to be driven by oneself. On the one hand it was not sporty enough and on the other it required high forces on the steering wheel and a lot of sensitivity on the shift lever. Together with the
hand brake it was positioned outside the door which did not exist. The entrance at the front was only possible from the left.
The pointed radiators (pictured below) was already in the fashion of 1914, the wooden spokes out in the 20s. But not for everything the 1923 was unfavorable, because it was the year of the first race over 24 hours in
Le Mans and there even today, more exciting than ever and useful for some of Audis big racing successes. 08/16
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