Leitra
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Leitra is a Danish company and also the name of the velomobile
it makes. In Sweden a design for two persons called Fantom
was sold as blueprints in the 1930s and 40s.
Many thousands of DIY instructions were sold, but very few were actually built.
The body was made of plywood.
The second oil crisis in 1978 inspired Carl Georg Rasmussen, a Danish
engineer and pilot, to design and build the first practical velomobile.
It was called Leitra (Leight individual transport), a tadpole recumbent trike with full glassfiber fairing.
It was tested in the 1980s in several tough rallies like Trondheim-Oslo and Paris-Brest-Paris.
Or if it should become unavailable the web.archive.org copies.
Velomobile
A velomobile or bicycle car is a human-powered vehicle, enclosed for aerodynamic advantage and protection from weather and collisions. They are virtually always single-passenger vehicles. They are derived from recumbent bicycles and tricycles, with the addition of a full fairing . There are few...
it makes. In Sweden a design for two persons called Fantom
Fantom
Fantom is a Swedish velomobile with three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. It has no front suspension, but has suspension in the rear....
was sold as blueprints in the 1930s and 40s.
Many thousands of DIY instructions were sold, but very few were actually built.
The body was made of plywood.
The second oil crisis in 1978 inspired Carl Georg Rasmussen, a Danish
engineer and pilot, to design and build the first practical velomobile.
It was called Leitra (Leight individual transport), a tadpole recumbent trike with full glassfiber fairing.
It was tested in the 1980s in several tough rallies like Trondheim-Oslo and Paris-Brest-Paris.
External links
See the web-page : LeitraOr if it should become unavailable the web.archive.org copies.