Cars
Geddes car. It was so far ahead we can only hope it arrives today!
The article discusses the history of car aerodynamics and highlights the innovative vision of designer Bel Geddes, who proposed a streamlined and spacious minivan-shaped car with up to eight wheels for the 1939 Futurama exhibition in New York.
More than thirty years have passed since the beginning of the long and eventful story of car aerodynamics and yet, apart from some intermittent sports experimentations, nothing particular had been revealed: the cars of the day consisted of a voluminous bonnet, a shiny radiator, flashy fenders and a large cabin for passengers. Everyone was happy like that. Or almost. With his model for the 1939 Futurama exhibition in NEW York, the creative genius of Bel Geddes proposed a vehicle that concluded a journey he started in 1931 with the Motorcar Number 8 project. In his city of the future - he presented a monumental plastic with magnificently streamlined and rationally minivan-shaped cars with no fewer than eight wheels which were subsequently reduced to six.
Geddes’ first project in 1931 was a minivan with a large stabilizing fin with four traditional wheels.
The car also featured a large vertical stabilizer, or rudder, in its tail,
