The propeller for the Road
At the sight of the teardrop-shaped car, the permanently mounted propellers are immediately noticeable – even today, the eye remains a shade longer than usual. What might this have been like in 1935, when the world was still dominated by rationality?
The feeling at that time has not been handed down, but the extravagant appearance may have served exactly the purpose of the car, because it was used for advertising for a Spanish bakery called ‘Viena Capellanes’.
Bakery owner Ricardo was responsible for implementing the propeller function. The chassis of a British ‘Singer 9 HP’ was chosen as the substructure, whose engine had a displacement of just under 1,000cc. The engine power fade into the background due to the teardrop-shaped body that Ricardo worked out for the vehicle.
A total of three identical small delivery vans were made with this design and the bakery used them for service trips from 1935 onwards, including to the leisure and reaction areas of Case de Compo or Dehesa de la Villa.
Unfortunately, the bakery only enjoyed its unconventional sales cars for a few years, because for the Spanish Civil War all three vehicles were confiscated by the military and when the Spanish conflict was over, only one car was returned to the Viena Capellanes – the other two had probably not survived the war.
After repairing the vehicle damages, the only service vehicle was used again for the bakery and was used throughout the years of the Second World War until 1946.
