Classic crossword
Clues across
7. Alldays vehicles (cars and trucks) were made from 1898 to 1918 by the Alldays and ------ company (6) 8. GM subsidiary from 1985 to 2010, with vehicles sold in America and Canada from 1991 to 2010 (6) 10. British Formula 1 (F1) racing car, with its most successful years being 1957 and 1958 (7) 11. Model name for Fiat’s 1978–’88 compact family car, with just short of 1.8 million units sold — aka the Strada for most English-speaking export markets (5)
12. Word describing the state of an engine running at tick-over speed with throttle closed (4)
13. Australian engineering and retail company, remembered for its involvement in competition engine design, most successfully with Brabham in 1966–’67 (5) 17. Us-based industrial designer, noted for successful body styles for Studebaker from 1936 into the ’50s (5) 18. Italian vehicle styling and design company, founded in 1916, taken over by Ford in the early ’70s, with its name used to badge many upmarket Ford models (4)
22. Axle ----- describes a situation where an application of excess power causes a driven wheel to move sharply up and down and lose road adhesion (5) 23. Opel’s small- to mid-range family car, introduced in 1935 as Germany’s first unitary-construction car, it was built through to 1957, and again from 1967 to ’70 (7) 24. Simca’s very successful family car, built from 1951 to 1963 (1964 in Australia), over 1.4 million were sold in three main series (6) 25. Engine-building company, active in Italy, France, and Britain from the early 1900s: engines were built for motorbikes, boats, cars, and aircraft, and production continued in Britain until 1980 (6) Clues down 1. Chevrolet’s flat-six compact car, nearly 1.8 million were made from 1960 to ’69, though it got a bad start from the Unsafe at Any Speed controversy (7) 2. Italian carrozzeria founded in 1948: successful through the 1950–’60s, it was sold to Ford in 1973 which discontinued use of the name, though there have been brief attempts to reuse it (7) 3. Model name for a massive Thornycroft tank transporter / prime mover 6x4 truck/tractor unit built from 1951, powered by a big V8 motor developed from the Rolls-royce Merlin aircraft engine (5) 4. Model name for Chevrolet top model full-size cars from 1966 to 1996, in four main model generations: more recently, from 2011, Holdens were sold in the US using this model name (7) 5. Classic low-production US sports tourer, with around 400 built from 1951 to ’54, developed from an original Frank Kurtis sports car design (5) 6. Hotchkiss saloon, available with four- or six-cylinder engines: just under 5500 units were sold from 1950 to ’54 (5) 9. US coachbuilder active from 1909 — after acquisition by Fisher in 1925, it became part of GM from 1931, and top Cadillac luxury models used the name from 1952 (9) 14. Old-time open car-body style, featuring a straight line from bonnet top through to the rear of the car (7) 15. UK car designer-constructor, its Lotus sports and racing car designs were successful and influential from the 1950 son (7)16. Ford’s full-size car range of the 1960s, using its space race–influenced name to lift its image in an attempt to match the sales of Chevrolet’ s rival Impala (7)19. StandardTriumph’ s forward control-box van, sold by Standard and Leyland from 1958: production finally ceased in India in 1980 (5) 20. US sports car built from 1992 on, developed from Frank Costin’s design for the Irish-built TMC sports car (5) 21. UK car stylist turned carmaker, graduating from Swallow Sidecars to SS cars, and finally Jaguar after World War II, when the abbreviation ‘SS’ had very unfortunate connotations (5)
Answers to last month’s crossword, No. 299 Across 7. Allard 8. Retard 10. Impreza 11. Leone 12. Apex 13. Delta 17. Volvo 18. Tree 22. Amigo 23. Gilbern 24. Ranger 25. Bel Air
Down 1. Kapitan 2. Clipper 3. Breer 4. Bellett 5. Major 6. Edsel 9. Facel Vega 14. Coronet 15. Freeway 16. Leonard 19. Matra 20. Diana 21. Olley