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27 November 2017

27 August 2011

  • 03:4603:46, 27 August 2011 diff hist +130 Rolls-Royce V-8 (1905) Addition: Though none survive, Rolls-Royce at least emerges as the first to conceive of a passenger car designed from the outset as a V-8. Source: The Flying Lady (ISSN 0015-4830) Tom Clarke (UK) and Rubén Verdés (FL), issue 08-3, p8880
  • 03:3103:31, 27 August 2011 diff hist −157 Rolls-Royce V-8 (1905) 1) removed Marmon reference - there were V8's before Marmon (e.g., Adler. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ader); 2) typo: "Hamsworth" should be "Harmsworth" (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscount_Northcliffe)

19 May 2008

  • 01:4801:48, 19 May 2008 diff hist −17 Rolls-Royce V-8 (1905) 90 degrees is correct & there is already a valid reference cited: Bird & Hollows – first line of the V-8 engine description (do read it). Mr. Evans' next edition will be corrected. Do your homework.

21 January 2008

  • 16:0616:06, 21 January 2008 diff hist −17 Rolls-Royce V-8 (1905) Changed 120 degree to 90 degree engine. (The "120" comes from M. Evan's book. "90" is well documented and can be measured against surviving drawings - see Morton's: Hist. of R-R Mtcars, Vol1)