Factors influencing present and future truck design are national highway program, operation of double bottoms on turnpikes, and AASHO road tests; higher horsepower can be accomplished by greater displacement, higher engine speed, and supercharging; advantages of V design diesel engine which offers means of getting more horsepower in less lengths and with lighter weight compared to in-line engine in same horsepower range; closest contender for power plant of intercity highway truck is gas turbine.
Future of higher horsepower engine
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1961 Engines
1961
5 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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