Socema Grégoire Turbine Concept - 1952

An aircraft gas turbine and efficient aerodynamic aluminum body marked out Jean Albert Gregoire as a great designer. The project was shelved due to cost and braking problems ; a turbine does not generate any braking effect upon deceleration.

 

Turbine

100 ch @ 25.000 rpm

Vmax : 200 km/h

1 ex.

 

Collection Automobile Club de l'Ouest

Musée Automobile de la Sarthe

Musée des 24 Heures

Le Mans

France

July 2015

Done