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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 616
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2014 - 02:42 pm: | 
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I have not heard of the Achilles engine before. Who and where was it manufactured? Achilles would not have been my choice of a name for an engine, particularly in 1913 when the technology was still evolving.
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3271
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2014 - 04:39 pm: |
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Atkin-Wheeler Company Huntington, Long Island, New York
Trade Names Achilles or AWC
The engines were overhead valve, in 1913 they mfgrd a V/8 model !
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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 617
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2014 - 05:21 pm: |
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Sounds like they were pretty progressive if they manufactured a V8 that early.
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