Renault 4CV - 1956

The Renault 4CV (French: "quatre chevaux") 

is a rear-engined, rear wheel drive, four-door 

economy car manufactured and marketed by 

the French manufacturer Renault from 

August 1947 through July 1961. As the first 

French car to sell over a million units, the 

Standard 8 - 1955

The 1953 Eight was a completely new car 

with unit construction and an overhead-valve 

engine. Only saloon models were made. The 

new engine of 803 cc produced slightly less 

power than the outgoing larger sidevalve unit 

with 26 bhp at 4500 rpm but this was 

increased to 30 bhp at 5000 rpm in 1957. The 

4-speed gearbox, with synchromesh on the 

top three ratios, was available with optional 

overdrive from March 1957. Girling hydraulic 

drum brakes were fitted. 

Austin A30 - 1954

September 1956. Introduced as the "New 

Austin Seven", it was Austin's answer to the 

IFA F8 - 1954

The F8 was slightly shorter than its 

predecessor despite having a marginally 

as the Reichsklasse, was manufactured only 

till 1940 but the Meisterklasse sedan 

continued in production till 1942. In addition 

to the saloons, cabriolet (saloon and coupé) 

IFA F9 - 1953

The IFA F9 was a compact saloon 

manufactured under the auspices of the 

Russian and East German states between 

1949 or 1950 and 1956. It was initially built 

at Zwickau at the plant previously owned by 

Auto Union. In 1953 production was 

transferred to the former BMW 

manufacturing plant at Eisenach where its 

underpinnings subsequently found their way 

Moskvich 401 - 1955

Between 1940 and 1941, the Russians had 

independently made 500 units of the KIM 10- 

50, a loose copy of the similarly sized four- 

door Ford Prefect, but national priorities 

changed with the German invasion of Russia 

in Summer 1941, and the production of the 

Ford inspired car was not resumed after the 

 

1950-1959

The Fifties was a decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959. By its end, the world had largely recovered from World War II 

and the Cold War developed from its modest beginning in the late 1940s to a hot competition between the United States and the Soviet Union by the 

beginning of the 1960s. 

beginnings of the decade and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik I. Along with increased testing of nuclear weapons (such as 

RDS-37 and Upshot-Knothole), this created a politically conservative climate. In the United States, the The Second Red Scare caused public 

Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress and anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the decade. The