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138<br />

So Georges set about reinventing his wooden Type H to produce his<br />

very first automobile, the all-steel Type K. It was also the first Mochet<br />

without pedals. The motor was upgraded to a 125-cubic centimeter<br />

version of the Zurcher, which used a separate three-speed gearbox.<br />

The chassis remained the same, with no front suspension and external<br />

contracting band-brakes on the rear wheels. He stuck to his principles<br />

of the minimum amount of work required to shape his body panels, and<br />

the result was a startling explosion of creased and folded flat panels in<br />

a multitude of triangular shapes in different sizes. The windshield was<br />

supported by the triangular buttresses characteristic of this type. With<br />

not a curve in sight, there was nothing else like it.

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