<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I had a friend that had a Pontiac Straight 8 in high school so that wasn't new to me, but if you follow the links in Brad's link you will find U-shaped and H-shaped engines which I had never heard of.  Surprisingly, it appears Pratt and Whitney gave serious consideration to an H engine for use in late WWII engines, but it didn't prove successful.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">There was also a W-24 engine consisting of 3 Duesenberg straight 8s arranged in a double V arrangement.  Here is a picture of the gear train on the front of that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Howard</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 9:33 AM <<a href="mailto:bradloomis@charter.net">bradloomis@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5027817355953568261WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Google gave me this which one can expand upon:<br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-eight_engine" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(102,0,153);text-decoration:none"><u></u><u></u></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-eight_engine" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,33);text-decoration-line:none"></span></a></p></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5027817355953568261WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-eight_engine" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,33);text-decoration-line:none">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-eight_engine</span></a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><br></p></div></div>
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