Stephen
This is likely to be the old method of defining the size of the engine
from which different taxes might derive.
It is the earlier British method used before total displacement in c.c.
came into use around 1947. It was called the RAC system. For more
reading see
http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/r/a/rac%20horsepower%20rating/
source.html
and others, Google - old Horsepower rating
However I believe that the figure 16 is wrong. If my memory serves me
correctly a 100 engine would be 18 HP in 'old money'.
For example the 2.2 litre version of our engine started life in the
Austin 16 rated at 16 HP and without any significant changes became the
2.2 litre in the Austin A70 Hampshire rated as giving 68 bhp.
As you will see Austin used the old and new Horsepower ratings when
naming a model.
Regards
> I also have a question for those in the know, on the upper right hand
>side of the card is a box labeled H.P., which I thought meant Horse Power but
>maybe not as the numbers typed in there are 16. What else could it mean and
>what would the 16 stand for?
>Steven Kingsbury
>BN1 #598
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John Harper
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