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Re: Engine type

To: Nolan Penney <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Subject: Re: Engine type
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:17:12 -0700
The 1500 engine is descended from the original Standard Eight 803 cc engine 
produced as early as 1953.  I don't know if that is what
you were looking for, though.  I don't understand your reference to "type" in 
this usage.  Or do you mean "A-Type"?

Joe 

Nolan Penney wrote:
> 
> I need a little help here.  I've got some of Vizard's books and thoroughly 
>enjoy them.  But being far less then an expert on the engineering history of 
>these engines, I have no idea if the Triumph 1500 engine is of a particular 
>type of engine that Vizard often describes in his book.
> 
> Do any of you folks know if the 1500 is a "type" (a type, etc), or decended 
>from one, or any of that?

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