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'Subject: Re: to german enginering...
Cc: "Luke" <maytagasm at sympatico.ca>, <pantg at otenet.gr>

"Luke" <maytagasm at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>and August horch was the first automobile engineer to ever specifically
>try to lighten
>his cars ... by using alloys for the blocks...

Not quite. There might be others, but I distinctly remember the ill-fated
Hillman Imp of the mid-1960s as having an all-alloy engine. Audi might have
been one of the first to actually do it successfully...

Tom

Not Really...Ettore Buggatti (spl?) used alloy blocks in many of his cars (in
the 1920s), long before Hillman or Horch.