Exhaust Arrangements and Their Influence on the Power Output of Internal-combustion Engines

Abstract

This paper was read before a meeting of the South Wales Branch Graduates' Section, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on 24th February 1953, and was awarded a Viscount Weir Prize.

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