Gabriel Voisin was an aviation pioneer who progressed into the car business after the First World War using Knight-type sleeve-valve engines. Designed by American Charles Yale Knight yet perfected in ...
Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single-sleeve valve engine design in 1925. Believing this technology might replace poppet valves ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1925, Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single ...
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The Napier E124 Two-Stroke H-24 Diesel airplane engine was designed in the ‘30s. The dual horizontally opposed engine displaced 75 liters and had 24 cylinders and a gas turbine. It was superseded by ...
From Toledo, Ohio, the Willys-Knight company was known for high-quality cars and special sleeve-valve engines. The sleeve-valve engine was known for its smoothness and quiet nature, but eventually ...
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