American publisher Charles Knight was not at all impressed with his new 1901 Knox ‘gasoline runabout’. Like some other cars of the era, its four-stroke engine relied on a single valve to permit both ...

SLEEVE-VALVE ENGINES MAY NOW BE obscure automotive history, but they were once popular powerplants worldwide and could be found in the English Daimler and Belgian Minerva, among others. The best-known ...

On the front of the SP250, a large rounded hood sloped down to a wide, oval, eggcrate grille dominated by a big "V" to advertise the V-8, which was a relative rarity in Britain in the early 1960s. The ...

The Willys-Knight brought quiet sleeve-valve technology into the affordable price range. The Willys-Knight was a well-regarded medium-priced car built by Willys-Overland of Toledo, Ohio, and Toronto ...

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