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• AJS
  ...in 1929 with the Nine powered by a 1018 cc side valve [[Coventry-Climax]] engine producing 24 bhp and driving through a three speed gearbox. The cars were q ...] engine. This was followed by the Commodore with a [[Coventry Climax]] L6 engine and finally by the Admiral. Just over 200 buses were built.<ref name="wolve
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• Bedford Vehicles
  ...)|cylinder]] engine was to form the basis of Bedford and Vauxhall [[petrol engine]]s almost until the marque ceased building trucks and buses. ...were updated - the latter being redesignated BYC as it was fitted with the engine and synchromesh gearbox of the Big Six Vauxhall cars. The 5-6 cwt. HC light
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• Overdrive
  ...direct drive gears increase torque multiplication at the expense of higher engine rpm and thus, decreased fuel economy. ...n]]s have three speeds and overdrive (fourth speed). Overdrive allows the engine to operate at a lower rpm for a given road speed. This allows the vehicle t
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• Electric vehicle
  *generated on-board using a combustion engine, as in a [[diesel-electric]] locomotive *generated on-board using nuclear energy, on nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers
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• Triumph
  ...ny. It was clear to Holbrook that there was no future in pursuing the mass manufacturers and so decided to take the company upmarket with the Southern Cross and Glo ....3 and developed an ambitious new car with an Alfa inspired [[Straight-8]] engine called the Triumph Dolomite.
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• Gas turbine
  A '''gas turbine''', also called a '''combustion turbine''', is a [[rotary engine]] that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream co ...ft power, compressed air and thrust, in any combination, and used to power aircraft, trains, ships, generators, and even tanks.
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• Rootes
  ...ssembly plant in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, initially manufacturing aircraft, one of the first types being the [[Bristol Blenheim]]. Production included ...ands, and the company incurred further costs in transporting half-finished engine castings from Linwood to be machined at Ryton and returned to Linwood once
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• Zastava
  ...changes i.e. Speedometer, Seats, Door handles, (4cyl, 767 cm3 , 25 HP OHC engine, rear wheel drive). Its mass production started in the early sixties, it wa ...va management decided to develop a new model, still based on the same Fiat engine. It was originally to be known as Zastava 102, but the name was dropped in
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• Doble Steam Car
  ...nts salvaged from a wrecked [[White Motor Company]] steamer, driving a new engine of the Doble brothers' own design. It did not run particularly well, but it ...r from the common steam vehicle nuisances of corrosion and scale by mixing engine oil with feedwater.
  16 KB (2,583 words) - 06:59, 19 February 2007
• Hydrogen vehicle
  A '''hydrogen vehicle''' is a [[vehicle]], such as an [[automobile]] or aircraft, which uses hydrogen]as its primary source of power for locomotion. These ...el, [[gasoline]], [[diesel]] or methane, in a modern [[internal combustion engine]], but they produce more pollution than would use of that energy in [[plug-
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• Wankel engine
  ...its introduction the engine has been commonly referred to as the '''rotary engine''', though this name is also applied to several completely different design The engine was invented by German engineer [[Felix Wankel]]. He began its development
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• Continuously Variable Transmission
  ...erent set of gear in the epicyclic. The gear that does not draw power from engine or CVT transfers torque to the transmission output. The gear set acts as a ...er (e.g. JATCO) and hence lose efficiency. Roller-based CVTs can with more engine torque than cariable-diameter pulley CVTs.
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• Carburetor
  ...hort, is a device that mixes air and [[fuel]] for an [[internal-combustion engine]]. It was invented by Hungarian scientists [[Donát Bánki]] and [[János C ...lar units from other manufacturers) increased. Small propeller-driven flat aircraft engines still use the updraft carburetor design.
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• V8 engine
  A '''V8 engine''' is a [[V engine]] with eight [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s mounted on the [[crankcase]] in two banks of four cylinders, i ...n a [[V6 engine|V6]], while being considerably less expensive than a [[V12 engine]]. Racing V8s continue to use the single plane crankshaft because it allows
  50 KB (7,583 words) - 13:02, 24 May 2010
• Fuel injection
  ...the fuel metering task is only one of several functions performed by an ''engine management system''. ...n schemes have existed since the earliest usage of the internal combustion engine.
  33 KB (4,922 words) - 12:15, 4 June 2009
• Indianapolis 500
  ...did from 1913 to 1919. However, after World War I, the native drivers and manufacturers regained their dominance of the race, with the engineer Harry Arminius Mill ...er (122 and 91 in³) engine single-seaters, winning four more races for the engine up to 1929 (two of them, 1926 and 1928, in Miller chassis). The engines the
  26 KB (4,009 words) - 06:41, 20 March 2007
• Motor oil
  ...leans, inhibits corrosion, improves sealing and [[engine cooling|cools the engine]] by carrying heat away from moving parts. Dieter Klamann's text<ref>Klamma ...consumption and decreases power output and can, in extreme cases, lead to engine failure.
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• General Motors Company
  ...railcar builder Electro-Motive Corporation and its engine supplier Winton Engine in 1930, renaming both as the General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Over ...the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to GM for $5 billion. GM merged Hughes Aircraft with its Delco Electronics unit to form GM Hughes Electronics (GMHE). This
  30 KB (4,492 words) - 02:35, 11 April 2010
• Preston Tucker
  ...rmored car|armored combat car]], powered by a Miller-modified Packard V-12 engine. ...le prototype of the airplane was started, powered by a straight 8-cylinder engine developed/influenced by Harry Miller, called the Miller L-510. Nicknamed t
  27 KB (4,351 words) - 07:02, 3 January 2010
• Studebaker
  ...nd in 1956 the nearly bankrupt automaker brought in a management team from aircraft maker [[Curtiss-Wright]] to help get it back on its feet. At the behest of ...Studebaker Avanti|Avanti]] sports car (1963) were based on old chassis and engine designs. The Lark, in particular, was based on existing parts to the degree
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