Tom
Do you have an address, a price or a phone number for the Triumph 7 you
mentioned??
I am kind of interested.
BTW: You have probably already had answers to your question you asked
but here goes anyway:
All British cars in the 1920s and 30s and 40s were taxed on a complex formula
that pretended to compute the horsepower based on the piston bore diameter
with little or no little or no consideration of stroke. (Parliment could be
just as
unrealistic as the US congress) These taxes were VERY HIGH, so it promoted
the use in the UK of small bore/longg stroke engines. Most car makers
prominently
featured this computed number in the modle names of there cars. Thus the Austin
7
and Triumph 7 were taxed on "7 horsepower". Similar deal in France for the
Reneault 4cv and Citroen 2cv. CV stands fot cheval units (horsepower).
The 1932 Ford V8 was advertized at 85 hp in the US, in England it was 32 hp
computed.
Because so many British engines started their developement in those days and
most later ones were developed from earlier ones, it realy wasn't until the
1960s
that the started to come out with more practical short stroke engines.
/Dick Nyquist
If you want to respond off line I'm at (408)553-3948 or dickn@hpvid.hp.com
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