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    production but from 1936 these were steadily replaced with cars designed by Walter Becchia, featuring transverse leaf-sprung independent suspension. These included...
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    the 1939 versions. Walter Becchia was now briefed to design an air-cooled unit, still of two cylinders, and still of 375 cc. Becchia was also supposed...
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    been a feature of the previous decade. The company's star engineer, Walter Becchia, transferred to Citroën at the start of the war, but Tony Lago was joined...
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  • innovative Mini, in the late 1950s; Lucien Gerard, from Talbot, and Walter Becchia, who designed the two-cylinder water-cooled horizontally-opposed engine...
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    Automobiles Talbot S.A. in mid-1936 and S T D Motors was liquidated. Walter Becchia, now best known for designing the Citroen 2CV's flat twin engine during...
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    and racing cars were designed by a fellow Italian expatriate called Walter Becchia who during 1939 would transfer to Citroën and play a key role in the...
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