Clive George wrote:
On 04/02/2012 11:01, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Doctor wrote:
Large diesels used for this sort of application aren't comparable to
what is suitable for road use.

There are two-stroke diseel trucks. The Commer TS-3 was two-stroke.

You seem to have a problem with are and was. Commer went out of business
in 1979.

The Commer two stroke opposed piston engine is well worth checking out -
it's quite amusing.


Especially the way that the supercharger was driven off the crankshaft
by a differential gear arrangement which meant that the harder it
worked, the higher the boost pressure got. Three cylinders, six pistons,
two crankshafts...

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Tciao for Now!

John.