Articles

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Articles

Aluminium pistons, rotary aero engines and the first Bentley

An aluminium space frame and air suspension for a show-car grand tourer

An Austrian designer in a Czechoslovak firm: the career of Hans Ledwinka

An engine and a motor that share the work almost evenly

An engine designed around a single car: the Lamborghini L411

An engine that outlived the racing programmes it was drawn for

Armour for the trench fighter: why the Salamander was built and how it fell short

Before the steamboat, Fulton built a submarine

Bell's search for lift, from kites to a hydrofoil speed record

Beverley Bass: the captain who landed at Gander and became a stage character

Bindo Maserati, the brother who joined the firm late

Bogotá megaprojects and the disputes around them

Boost, fuel and service life limits of the Honda Indy V6

Bought for one cent, restored to run

Brutus: uneven cylinders and no front brakes

Built for the emission rules: how the Mitsubishi 4N1 diesels were designed

Byron Carter, the friction drive Cartercar and the hand crank that changed starting

Carlo Abarth: from racing sidecars to the scorpion badge

Casey Baldwin, the third man question and the HD-4 hydrofoil

Charging, features and safety in the Mahindra XEV 9e

Charles W. Nash and the discipline of the ledger

Clive Sinclair, the C5 and the long search for a personal electric vehicle

Colin Chapman and the habit of finding advantage inside the rules

Den Kenjirō: a bureaucrat's route from the railway board to Taiwan and the Datsun name

Document, improve, document again: Jan Gehl and the pedestrian city

Dorothy Levitt, Napier's publicity driver, and where that publicity stopped

Ed Cole and the engines that came before the rules

Edward Deeds and the First World War aircraft production inquiry

Eiji Toyoda and the lesson of River Rouge

Ettore Maserati: five brothers, several employers and a company that kept moving

Feng Ru: from Oakland workshop to the skies of Guangzhou

Five valves, triple-jet injection and a turbo in a kei car engine

Four cargo containers for carrying Energia and Buran on a bomber's back

Frank Duryea and the work behind the Duryea motor wagon

From a converted Tiger Moth to the North Pole: Sheila Scott and her Piper aircraft

From a failed first test run to the vibration damper: how Lanchester built his car

From a failed Wright glider copy to the joystick patent

From a Navy test program to the first wings of gold

From a Polish uprising to the first electric submarine

From a Pyongyang schoolgirl to the founding of the Korean air force

From a rattling first engine to the automobile muffler

From a Swedish Junkers conversion to the Army Type 93 bomber

From a Tobata foundry to Nissan and the industrial plans of Manchukuo

From a used buggy to a 13-car factory: the Duryea motor wagon

From aircraft engine licensee to General Director of BMW

From airliner to ramp transport: what the Tu-107 record lists

From airship hulls to car bodies: the streamlining career of Paul Jaray

From an etched aluminum block to a flat-plane racing line

From an unraced Indycar design to a road car engine

From an unraced IndyCar design to the 720S: the McLaren M840T