The Petrol Engine / A Text-book dealing with the Principles of Design and Construction, with a Special Chapter on the Two-stroke Engine

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A Text-book dealing with the Principles
of Design and Construction, with
a Special Chapter on the
Two-stroke Engine

FRANCIS JOHN KEAN

B.Sc. (Lond.); M.I.M.E.
First-Class Honourman in Engineering; Head of the Motor Car Engineering
Department of the Polytechnic School of Engineering, Regent Street,
London, W.; Formerly Lecturer on Experimental Engineering
at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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