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While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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What in the World Was a Worldmobile?

Posted October 06, 2010 9:00 AM by dstrohl

The Worldmobile may or may not be one of the greatest mysteries in autodom, but it is certainly perplexing. Keith Marvin, who normally could turn up dirt on any Henway he crossed paths with, could only manage to find a few squibs of information about the Worldmobile, which he gathered up for a quick two-page story 1984. From the article:

"The Worldmobile Eight, a new car being manufacturing by the Worldmobile Company of Cleveland, specializes on the one chassis, with a full line of sport and closed-type bodies. The motor is eight in line, of small bore and long stroke. Although light in weight, the car is exceptionally long in wheelbase. It incorporates a number of salient innovatiosn in chassis and body design. High performance and adaptability are claimed for it".

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Re: What in the World Was a Worldmobile?

10/10/2010 4:56 PM

Worldmobile
The Service-Relay Motors Corp.
Lima, Ohio
1928

The Worldmobile was a large six passenger four door Sedan made in Lima, Ohio. The Service-Relay Motors Corp. produced this American Automobile in 1928. Service Relay were truck builders and only seven Worldmobile automobiles were made by them.

The Worldmobile was equipped with a 271 cubic inch L-head Lycoming straight 8 engine.

http://www.american-automobiles.com/Worldmobile.html

John,

Aiken, SC

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