This configuration is uncommon as it is heavier than a V design, it main interrest is to share common parts with Straight engines.
An engine of this type was the 16-cylinder engine found on the Bugatti Type 45, and only two were produced. However, Bugatti licensed the design to Duesenberg in America, who produced about 40, and Breguet of France, who both intended the engine for aircraft use.
Matra develloped a high-end Bagheera prototype powered by a 2,6 L U8 engine made of two Simca 1000 Rallye 2 Straight-4 connected by chains around 1974. However with petroleum crisis this car was never put in production.
Subject matter wherein the engine* is of the type comprising a rotatable shaft carrying blades, which shaft is caused to rotate by the reaction on its blades of a moving gas generated by the burning of fuel.
Subject matter wherein the engine* is of a type requiring periodic ignition for continued operation and the means to regulate the operation of the engine includes means to regulate or interrupt the periodic ignition to enable a gear transmission* speed ratio* change.
Subject matter wherein the engine* is driven by fluid energy and wherein engine regulating means varies the quantity of driving fluid passing to the engine*, and wherein operation of the regulating means to reduce the quantity of driving fluid to the engine also moves the brake* into a force applying position.
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