{"id":597,"date":"2013-02-11T17:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:55:12","slug":"sunbeam-twenty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=597","title":{"rendered":"Sunbeam Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: 1.285714286rem; line-height: 1.6;\">1926-1933<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20.9 hp Tourer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/models\/twenty.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"256\" \/><br \/>\n<i>20.9 hp Tourer<\/i><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sunbeam 20, introduced for 1927, featured a 2916cc overhead valve six cylinder engine with a rating of 20.9 hp and a four speed gearbox. It used semi-elliptic front suspension and cantilever rear suspension. The four wheel brakes were operated by cable at the front and rod at the rear. A Claudel Hobson carburettor was fitted.<\/p>\n<p>Body styles available were: 2-seater, tourer, fixed-head coupe, folding-head coupe, coachbuilt saloon, Weymann saloon and Rally Weymann saloon.<\/p>\n<p>A long wheelbase chassis was introduced in 1928 for the carriage trade.<\/p>\n<p>Production of the 1926-30 type ran to around 2560 units.<\/p>\n<p>In 1930, the 20 was revised with a new 3317cc OHV six (rating 23.8 hp), Zenith carburettor and a slightly larger chassis. Other revisions included vacuum servo brakes and a silent third gearbox. Around 752 of the 1931-33 type were built.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h6>photo: Chris Minors<\/h6>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1926-1933 &nbsp; 20.9 hp Tourer&nbsp; The Sunbeam 20, introduced for 1927, featured a 2916cc overhead valve six cylinder engine with a rating of 20.9 hp and a four speed gearbox. It used semi-elliptic front suspension and cantilever rear suspension. The four wheel brakes were operated by cable at the front and rod at the rear. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunbeam Twenty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":456,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6ptz4-9D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/2468"}],"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=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}