- 1. British Engineering Triumph-ant... (score: 1)
- Author: Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 13:59:00 PDT
- via a contorted path, I got this message which was originally posted to rec.motorcycles... -- Start of forwarded message -- -- End of forwarded message --
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00755.html (9,052 bytes)
- 2. Re: British Engineering Triumph-ant... (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Kent Kantarjiev" <cak@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 14:27:56 PDT
- He's got the right idea, but some of the dates wrong - sfisher will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Skinner brothers fashioned their first carburetter from a leather sack just after WWI. And
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00756.html (7,424 bytes)
- 3. RE: British Engineering Triumph-ant... (score: 1)
- Author: DEHAASM@NAPC-1.NAVY.MIL
- Date: Thu 19 Aug 93 19:42:07-EDT
- Well the Japanese may be good at taking existing technology and refining it to unbelievable levels of reliability. But on the subject of motorcycles (not LBC content here) the number one SuperBike in
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00760.html (7,157 bytes)
- 4. Re: British Engineering Triumph-ant... (score: 1)
- Author: megatest!bldg2fs1!sfisher@uu2.psi.com (Scott Fisher)
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 15:58:20 PDT
- Before, actually; 1909 is the accepted initial date for the Skinner's Union. And I wish he'd known how to spell Healey... Multivalve engines, unfortunately, we have to credit to the French. The 1911
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00761.html (9,965 bytes)
- 5. RE: British Engineering Triumph-ant... (score: 1)
- Author: mfrankfo@nebula.tbe.com
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 09:32:09 CDT
- I think Scott Ruffner must have taken a blow to head w/o wearing a helmet. The Rileys were the first British car to use rack and pinion steering. And their design looked suspisously like a French car
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00771.html (7,811 bytes)
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