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John McCoy

wrote in news:2kcgdct95emmpluphi0grv3sl4q3kivrvd@
4ax.com:

There were several "generations" of "offy" engines, starting with the
Miller designed engine originally built and sold as a marine engine..

Miller was an amazing designer, and a lousy businessman.

He's mostly famous for his 91cid straight-8 engines (which
are invariably described as "clockwork" and "jewel-like").
He then designed what became the Offy, went bankrupt, and
sold the design to Offenhauser. After that he designed
an engine which eventually became the legendary Novi (also
built by Offenhauser originally). And some of his last
design work eventually found it's way into the Ford Indy
engine (the Foyt-Ford, not the Cosworth), which Meyer-
Drake built a lot of the components for.

John