On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Ross MacPherson wrote:
> As an interesting aside, The XPAG engine, fitted to the TC and TD are
> actually metric. The factory which made the engines was a French plant in
> England taken over by the Nuffield organization during the war and rather
> than retool it when the war ended they went right into production with the
> existing tools. As a 'convienience to the British motoring public' the nuts
> and bolt heads on these engines were converted to Whitworth so one finds an
> engine bolt that has a Whitworth head and a metric thread. To make maters
> worse the metric thread is an archaic one and not the same as modern SI
>metric.
Eeeeeeek.....So, does this make them a DPM??? Which would of course be
a Dreaded Previous Manufacturer.
Eric L. Van Iderstine - ME senior - Mississippi State University
Design Coordinator - MSU Formula SAE......Powered by Honda......
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