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• Avia Vehicles
  ...ngine. Based on an Avia 3500L chassis-cab, it featured an air-cooled Deutz engine and [[Magirus]] firefighting equipment. Spanish Avia should not be confused with the [[Avia|Czech Avia]] aircraft and automotive brand of the very same trade mark.
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• Rotax
  ...transport. Over the past 50 years, the company has developed more than 350 engine models for recreational products and has produced more than six million eng ...le and 1989, when Rotax received Type Certification for its 912 A aircraft engine.
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• Donnet
  ...ndon |id=ISBN 1-57958-293-1}}</ref> The Type G was made in a former Donnet aircraft factory at Gennevillers, Seine and the Pontarlier works was sold in 1928 an [[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France|Donnet]]
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• ABC Motors
  ...ne) '''C'''ompany) of Hersham, Surrey, England was a manufacturer of cars, aircraft, motor scooters, and engines for road and air. Established by [[Ronald Char [[Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United Kingdom]]
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• Anzani
  ...[[Alessandro Anzani]] (1877-1956), which produced proprietary engines for aircraft, [[Automobile|cars]], boats, and motorcycles in factories in Britain, Franc ...ed on to motor cycles and designed and built a record breaking lightweight engine. In 1907 he set up a small workshop in Paris with three staff and while the
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• Straight engine
  ...inline engine''' is an [[internal-combustion engine]] with all [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] aligned in one row or plane, with no offset. ...much smaller in overall physical dimensions than designs like the [[radial engine|radial]], and can be mounted in any direction. Straight configurations are
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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...rs was on offer including one with a 9.6 litre version of the six cylinder engine. The cars were among the most expensive on the British market. ...linder models to six ton models. In 1912 Maudslay supplied a 40 hp (30 kW) engine to power Britain's first petrol-electric railcar.<ref name=PI>{{cite book |
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• Aero (automobile)
  ...a Czech [[automobile]], manufactured between 1929 and 1947 by a well-known aircraft and car-body company owned by one Dr. Kabes in Praha-Vysocany. ...'' [[cyclecar]], had a 499&nbsp;cc single-[[cylinder|cylinder]] two-stroke engine with water cooling. Drive was to the rear axle through a 3 speed gearbox t
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• Hispano-Suiza
  ...n Spanish-French automotive and engineering firm best known for their car, engine and weapon designs in the pre-World War II period. Today they are part of t ...nkruptcy, and in Spain remained in operation, as a car, truck and aviation engine producer, with is main plant located in Barcelona, until 1946. They mass-pr
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• Guy Motors
  During World War I they made the ABC designed Wasp and Dragonfly aircraft engines, [[Tylor]] truck engines and [[Maudslay Motor Company|Maudslay]] ge ...n company. A cheaper model followed in 1924 with the 1954 cc 13/36 with an engine from [[Coventry Climax]]. About 110 of the 4 cylinder models are thought to
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• Marmon
  ...introduced the [[rear-view mirror]] as well as pioneering both the [[V16]] engine and the use of aluminum in auto manufacturing. ...engines tried over the next few years before more conventional [[straight engine]] designs were settled upon. Marmons soon gained a reputation as a reliabl
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• Armstrong Siddeley
  ...cts: motor cars, '''Armstrong Siddeley Motors Ltd''', and aero-engines and aircraft, via the [[Armstrong-Whitworth|Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Company]]. The c ...y Motors was made into subsidiary as was the [[Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company]].
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• Chiribiri
  ...tonio Chiribiri]] founded ''Torinese Velivoli Chiribiri & C.'', (Chiribiri Aircraft of Turin), along with associates Maurizio Ramassotto and the engineer Gaude ...started a second production series with a larger chassis and 1300cc, 12 HP engine, and continued throughout the war.
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• Flat-6 engine
  ...her before a fight, which has led to it being referred to as a '''boxer''' engine. ...h makes it more suitable for luxury sports cars, cruising motorcycles, and aircraft than ordinary passenger cars.<ref>{{cite book | last = Nunney | first = M
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• Napier & Son
  ...n of the early 1940s holds the title for the most powerful piston aircraft engine produced to this day, delivering 3,500&nbsp;hp (2,600&nbsp;kW) in its later ...cted to build engines from other companies' designs: initially a V12 Royal Aircraft Factory model and then [[Sunbeam Arab]]s. Both proved to be rather unreliab
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• Daimler-Benz
  ...ued to manufacture their separate [[automobile]] and [[internal combustion engine]] brands until, on June 28, 1926, when Benz & Cie. and DMG formally merged� ...[[race car]]s built to his specifications by Maybach, stipulated that the engine must be named ''Daimler-Mercedes'', and made the new automobile famous thro
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• Franz Josef Popp
  ...pp Motorenwerke very much needed a chief engineer with new ideas on making aircraft engines. ...n this way he was able to break free from [[Knorr Bremse AG]] and start up engine construction once more.
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• Isotta-Fraschini
  ...ry car manufacturer, while later it turned to the production of marine and aircraft engines as well as other goods. ...entered their Tipo D that featured an enormous 17.2&nbsp;liter 100&nbsp;hp engine. For a short time in 1907 Isotta-Fraschini merged with the French company [
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• Frazer Nash
  ...engines the cars were natural successors to the imported BMWs: the Bristol engine being a development of that of the [[BMW 328]]. These post-war cars are ver ...ydraulic|hydraulically-operated]] gun turrets for use in aircraft. Notable aircraft equipped with Frazer Nash turrets included the Avro Lancaster, Vickers Well
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• Kieft
  ...season a new design by Gordon Bedson, who had joined the company from the aircraft industry, was produced in time for the Whit Monday Meeting at [[Goodwood Ci ...ar which could also be used as a road car. Using a [[Coventry Climax]] FWA engine, all independent suspension using transverse leaf springs at the rear and a
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