In the US the Seagraves pumper engine was built by a bicycle company(that went into auto production)The autos lasted till 1936--the bikes till1940--but the engine was built till 1970.And chrystler just used their car ingine in the tanks they built in ww2(only conected them in a series so if one went out the others would still run)Lota strange designing took place in ww2
sam lingo pleasanton tx
>From: "jerrymoos"
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>Subject: Re: [CR] If You Are Visiting The UK
>Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:34:07 -0600
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>I believe the Triumph TR-2 was powered by a converted farm tractor engine.
>Of course none of this was so strange, as UK was just emerging from WWII
>when most industrial production was devoted to military production or to
>goods for maintaining necessary infrastructure - like farm production and
>fire fighting. Just as in the US, civilian passenger vehicles had had very
>low priority during the war, so it was natural that when the war ended,
>military/industrial goods would be converted to supply consumer products.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jerry Moos
>Houston, TX
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> > In a message dated 3/20/04 4:06:48 PM, fred_rednor@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > >Amazingly, these
> > >motors were originally designed to power the pumps of fire
> > >trucks!
> > >
> > >Perhaps this isn't so off topic in the sense that whatever
> > >attracted me to Euro style auto racing also attracted me to
> > >bicycling.
> >
> > Well, not quite. by the time they were powering Cooper and Lotus to
> > championships they were purpose built and not derived from the fire pump
>motor BUT the
> > 1100cc SOHC motors that powered Lotus, Cooper and a whole lot of sports
>cars
> > in the 50s were derived from the fire pump motor. It was designed by Wally
> > Hassan, a very capable gent who also had a hand in th Jag XK engine.
> > Phil Brown
> > Returning to topic in San Rafael, Calif.
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