Lloyd 300
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Lloyd LP300
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| Overview | |
| Manufacturer | Carl F. W. Borgward GmbH |
| Production | 18,087 |
| Body and chassis | |
| Body style |
2-door saloon coupé Kombi Panel van |
| Layout | FF layout |
| Powertrain | |
| Engine | 293 cc two-stroke 2-cylinder (parallel twin) 13 PS (HP): 9.6 kW |
The Lloyd 300 was a small car produced by the Borgward Group's Lloyd Motoren Werke GmbH (Lloyd Motor Works) in Bremen between 1950 and 1952.
The full name of the Lloyd 300 featured a two letter prefix that identified the body shape. The Lloyd LP300 ("Limousine" / saloon) was released in May 1950, while the LC300 (Coupé) and LS300 ("Kombi" / estate) followed early in 1951.
Power was delivered to the front wheels from a transversely mounted air-cooled twin cylinder two-stroke engine with a horizontal-flow Solex 30 BFRH carburetor. The engine capacity of 293cc provided for a maximum power output of 10 PS (6.5 kW) at 4,000 rpm. The top speed listed was 75 km/h (46 mph). The car was fueled using "regular" grade petrol/gasoline, mixed in the ratio of 25:1 with oil, reflecting the requirements of the "motorbike-style" two-stroke engine. When driven normally the Lloyd 300 consumed fuel significantly more frugally than West Germany's best selling small car, the Volkswagen. Space was at a premium and the 18 litre fuel tank was accommodated ahead of the bulkhead underneath the front hood/bonnet in a space shared with the engine and the six-volt battery. Power was fed to the front wheels via a three speed manual gear box (without synchromesh).
Borgward had contracted out the development of the engine and transmission package to a firm called "INKA" (Ingenieurs- und Konstruktionsarbeitsgemeinschaft) in Hude. The INKA engineers had previously been employed by Auto Union, the Zwickau based conglomerate that had produced a succession of technically innovative and commercially successful DKW branded small cars during the 1930s, and the similarities between the basic architecture and technical solutions employed by the Lloyd 300 and those of the prewar DKW F8 was impossible to miss. From the driver's seat, it was clear that no attempt had been made to conceal the way that details such as the gear lever and dashboard layout had been modelled on earlier DKW designs.
The steering employed a rack and pinion mechanism which was conventional at the time. It required 2¼ turns between opposite locks: the turning circle was 11 m (36 ft). The front wheels were suspended independently by two laterally mounted leaf springs. At the back there was a swing axle with semi-elliptical longitudinally configured leaf springs. From January 1952 it was possible to order the cars with shock absorbers for a supplement of DM 70.
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