{"id":499,"date":"2013-02-10T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:54:49","slug":"sunbeam-1620-20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=499","title":{"rendered":"Sunbeam 16\/20 &#038; 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 1.285714286rem; line-height: 1.6;\">1906-1909<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The 16\/20 was the first Angus Shaw-designed Sunbeam. The four cylinder engine had a bore and stroke of 95x120mm, giving a capacity of 3402cc. It was a L-head design, meaning the inlet and exhaust valves were on the same side of the engine. It continued the variable lift inlet valve system of the 12\/14. It used magneto ignition. A four speed gearbox was fitted.<\/p>\n<p>As with earlier models it had chain drive with the oil bath chain case.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1906, Shaw and Frederic Eastmead drove one of these cars from John O&#8217;Groats to Land&#8217;s End covering 1756 miles, without stopping the engine.<\/p>\n<p>By the time of the 16\/20, Sunbeam were building 10 cars per week.<\/p>\n<p>For 1908, the bore and stroke of the engine were increased to 105x130mm, becoming a 20hp of 4503cc.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 600 of this type were built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1906-1909 The 16\/20 was the first Angus Shaw-designed Sunbeam. The four cylinder engine had a bore and stroke of 95x120mm, giving a capacity of 3402cc. It was a L-head design, meaning the inlet and exhaust valves were on the same side of the engine. It continued the variable lift inlet valve system of the 12\/14. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunbeam 16\/20 &#038; 20<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":456,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6ptz4-83","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions\/503"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}