Re: fergussen history (no audi content)

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <26138377.36a8d3f9@aol.com> WSCRacer@aol.com writes:

>> This engine has a history as long and proud as the I5.  I think it was
>> originally developed for fork-lift trucks.  I used to work on the
>> performance versions quite a lot in my 'first' mechanical career - the
>> 'second' being entirely devoted to I5s.

> Wrong answer there Phil the Coventry-Climax engine was designed as a Water
> pump engine for fighting fires during WWII.

Yes, so Dave posted.  It certainly _was_ used in fork lift trucks,
though, because I did a head rebuild on one in the 1960s.

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