I had a friend who designed cars for Chevrolet in the late 50's. He said they had a huge lot with hundreds of vintage cars, all restored, like Harrah's car museum used to be. They were all operative, and the designers could go out there, get design ideas and drive any of them they wanted. I remember him saying that out of all those cars, the Hispano-Suiza impressed him the most.
On a serious note, the reason that front compartment is so small was deliberate design choice. The chauffeur was meant to work in discomfort to give the rear passengers, i.e. the owners, the extra room.
It does sound like a truck. Back in those days, engineers did not make a huge distinction between a car and a truck engine. Please keep in mind that this engine was bored out and given higher compression pistons. While this makes the engine more powerful, it also makes it louder. The original 4:1 compression ratio, meant that it could use kerosene, mineral spirit, turpentine or low octane gasoline as fuel.
Hispano-Suiza production numbers were small in relation to R-R! Two Hispano-Suiza items that R-R used on their cars was the brake servo system & Bijur chassis lubrication system! The H-S auto's were also manufactured by Skoda in Czechoslovakia middle 1920-early 1930's
Thank you for an excellent video. I have subscribed. Crank handles were retained in vehicle tool kits for static timing and to bring the pistons up for decoking i.e., removing carbon from the piston crowns. That is why Austin A50s (aka Hindustan Ambassadors), A55s and A60s, etcetera all had crank handles. There was a similar transition with military rifles in the 1890s when the attached cleaning rods were replaced with clearing rods for occasional use. The clearing rods were shorter and were used with a handle carried by an NCO. Routine cleaning was henceforth done with pull-throughs. This, in theory, reduced the potential for damage to rifling BUT as a former NCO who used his own multi-piece cleaning rod to safely remove obstructions from other people’s rifle barrels, there is always someone who has their brain turned off!
Hispano Suiza existed BEFORE the Great War. Engineer MArk Birkigt partnered before the war with spanish insdustrialists who previously had founded the also premium brand De la Cuadra. Mark Birkigt was of swiss origin, hence the name Hispano Suiza. Hispano Suiza made the WWI engine equivalent to what the Rolls Royce Merlin would be in WWII for the french (SPAD VII A), English (SE5A) and others. The Great Depression killed Hispano Suiza and the great war dismembered it.
Great Depression didn't kill Hispano Suiza, actually the factory "surfed" over the crisis quite well. It happens that the old Hispano Suiza was meant to build industrial vehicles (/buses, trucks/lorries, etc) since the beginning and most of the incomes of the factory came from these industrial vehicles together with aviation engines. Luxury cars were the ice in the cake that gave fame and glamour . Most of spaniards of 90 years ago never ever travelled in a Hispano Suiza car, but many of them travelled in Hispano buses or worked with those trucks. It was Spanish Civil war that killed literally Hispano Suiza, with many personnel murdered, exilitated...and the main plants expropiated by the republican government. Disorganization after the war, with Spain in ruins and at the same time the beginning of the IIGW it didn't help. Still so, the last model of a Hispano truck designed in the early 40s was the first design of truck built by Pegaso, a public owned truck maker of Spain until the brand was sold to Iveco in the 90s. All the line of Pegaso trucks made along those 40 years were of good quality and followed the lineage of Hispano with other named.
@@Alvar2001 I bet a lot of talented personnel of the factories were for the socialist. Or not for Franco at all. . and They were killed or exiled. So Franco killed Hispano Suiza via politial purges.
Wow Just Wow! I saw one at a car show in MA a decade ago and had no idea what it was. All I knew was that it was GORGEOUS! The owner was very knowledgeable and generous with his time and info. Hadn't seen another one since then.
Wow! That makes me wonder what the world would be like today if all manufactures of everything we use paid attention to detail and quality to match that work of art.
People who bought Hispano-Suizas didn't drive themselves. The car was obviously made for a chauffeur; it was probably built to fit him. When I was a child travel blankets were still a thing.
Really enjoyed this look at 1920s luxury. I was especially interested to see at 15:45 the large dashboard clock (made by Jaeger), as I have an identical one in my possession and use it as a desk clock. It's an 8-day clock, so presumably the chauffeur would wind it at the same time every week to ensure it kept going. I would have guessed that mine was a car clock from the 1930s, so it's interesting to see it in a car from as early as 1925. Not sure why the one in the H-S is upside-down though!
What a gorgeous car! Those upmarket pre-war cars were not seldom works of art! Just think of what Figoni & Falaschi created in their Paris atelier, and so did Bugatti in theirs in Molsheim. Here in our country we also had a famous very up-market, pre-war car manufaturer: Laurin & Klement, that built sumptuous cars that could rival Rolls Royces any day of the week. Later this brand was intergrated into the now well-known Skoda brand. I just subscribed to your channel and am looking forward to the next video! PS. is that a Ford RS 200 in the background? Cheers from Czech Republik!
This was a very informative and detailed video. Extremely well done. I couldn't subscribe fast enough, and look forward to what you'll bring us in the future.
Hai sir, I am from India We have vehicle like this and getting back fire on carburettor when running what to do Can you please say us what to do And I need idle speed jet number carburettor ❤❤
Really great video, I appreciate the slower pace, allowing us to see more details closer up than say, a Jay Leon’s Garage video. Very beautiful car, amazing window/rear door setup. Only improvement I’d make is either throughout the video or at the end, more B-roll close ups could be shown of all the interesting bits like the screws, hinges, nickel/chromed parts, the screens etc, as old coach built cars often have so much going on. Would it be possible to do a video of that Rolls Royce behind it in this video?
La Hispano-Suiza began producing cars in 1904, not after World War I, as you claim. It was not founded by Mark Birkigt either, he was the technical director and owner of the patents. The founder was the Catalan businessman Damian Mateu together with a group of Catalan investors.
Many thanks. It's sure there are not many of these still in France. Hispano Suiza (the French Company branch) was settled at Georges Guynemer street in Bois-Colombes near Paris in the 20s. Guynemer the fighter pilot flew Spads (and disappeared on one), equiped with an "Hispano" 200hp V8 with its aluminum block. This engine is named the "Hisso' in the US. Those planes also equiped the first US pursuit squadron of all times, when USAAF was not even created. Eddy Rickenbacker was the greatest US Ace of WWI, René Fonck the best alliee fighter pilot and they all went to combat with Hisso V8s, on spads.
There are 450 Hispano-Suiza left in the world, of which around 250 are the H6B/H6C models. Hispano did built around 2,200 H6B/H6C over the 14 year production run - same as the Rolls-Royce Phantom I, to which it is comparable, between 1926 and 1929 - but the survival rate is only 10%. Nobody is sadder about the fact that there are so few Hispanos about than I am. I've wanted an Hispano for 35 years, longer than almost any other enthusiast out there.
Pretty sure the brake servo Rolls used was the Clayton Dewandre used by other large cars in the 1920:s such as Humber so it would have been a case Hispano and Rolls buying from the same source rather than a Hispano part. Clayton were an English company.
Definitely not. Rolls-Royce licensed the Hispano-Suiza servo-brake system after Claude Johnson, the hyphen in Rolls-Royce, secretly fitted the Hispano mechanical servo-brake. Henry Royce agreed that his ageing Silver Ghost could no longer do without 4 wheel brakes. RR used the Hispano system until 1978, on the Phantom VI. Hispano-Suiza definitely did not use the Clayton Dewandre System (it was a feature on the WO Bentleys), and neither did Rolls-Royce.
Yes, Hispano-Suiza was born in Spain. But the H6B, and the grandest Hispano-Suizas (H6B, H6B, K6, J12) were produced in France. There was an H6B & H6C equivalent built in the Barcelona factory, the T41 and T56. I believe they used a cast iron cylinder block, rather than the technologically advanced - but troublesome - iron cylinder liners into an aluminium block.
It´s a "guy" thing: you had to have been a pilot in WW I to have learned all about those motor management parameters that live on the dash. I have 1950 Riley RMA and that too has more Bowden cables lined up in a row under the dash than either my son and nephews can be expected to handle...kind of like the management of Exhaust Gas Teperatures and Propeller pitches in old radial engines. Just like the women and children would run for cover when those old radial engines would start, half the satisfaction of these engines was also having the faint of heart run for cover! Who nowadays would understand the concept of pre-oiling (to save the crankshaft bearings!) before setting the magneto to "hot" or to retard ignition in a long hillclimb. Totally lost arts. Be greatful the pedals are where they are...some guys bought cars with the accelerator in the middle!! try that for size!
