Lanova design engines

That is indeed the beast in Q.

List of patents for the Mack Lanova eng.

very interesting Bruehawk I have only ever heard of these motors never seen one before

Paul

Re Tatra's reply #16, Henschel's.

Fascinating concept there, Tatra. That flat 12 engine must have been a work of art! Like the way the bus chassis has been set up to accept the rear end.

Also, the straight 12 White petrol engine, had heard of it but never seen one. Later years, my late father drove buses for many years in NSW, still remember the mob he worked for had both White and Mack buses,(amongst many other makes) If my memory serves me right, had bodies built by Properts, or some similar name. I do remember both the White and Mack buses undergoing repower from petrol to diesel, one of them had been fitted with a Hercules engine, a lot of ex-military stuff floating around, very cheap. Bus mechanic himself was ex-Army fitter.

I still get a huge kick out of reading and seeing how some of these early ideas were implemented. No going in and ordering a custom made jigger (unless you had either unlimited cash, or credit), and some of the fascinating adaptations, modifications still astound me. Most visitors who went to the Alice Springs truck museum the day I was there, made a bee-line for the Kenworth shed, me and a mate went in old shorts and shirts and crawled under and over that old government AEC. Ah, those were the days! Before mass production when trucks (and machinery as well as cars), had the one thing that I believe is missing today. Character!