XK applications

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I have been told that the XK engine is used in British tanks. Can the
Brits on the list confirm?

-David

At 06:35 PM 1/29/98 +0100, Stefan Knappe wrote:>> WOW Jaguar engines in fire trucks!

What did they put in the garbage trucks?
Brett
1990 XJ6
New Jersey, USA

Hi,
where I live they put Mercedes engines in garbage trucks :slight_smile:

Stefan Knappe
Frankfurt/Germany

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i have difficulty with this one.

 the m1-abrams tank is driven by a turbine. i'll wager the horsepower 
 in the 1000 range.
 
 the xk is a bit on the light side i think.
 
 now this may be tongue in cheek, but then again, when someone told me 
 that the word gullible was not in the dictionary, i looked it up...
 
 
 dennis

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Author: <David_Berman@baynetworks.com (David Berman) > at internet-sd
Date: 1/29/98 1:16 PM

I have been told that the XK engine is used in British tanks. Can the
Brits on the list confirm?

-David

At 06:35 PM 1/29/98 +0100, Stefan Knappe wrote:

WOW Jaguar engines in fire trucks!
What did they put in the garbage trucks?
Brett
1990 XJ6
New Jersey, USA

Hi,
where I live they put Mercedes engines in garbage trucks :slight_smile:

Stefan Knappe
Frankfurt/Germany

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I think the tank I was referring to is quite a bit older than the M1-Abrams.

-David

At 10:33 AM 1/29/98 -0800, Dennis Hurvitz wrote:> i have difficulty with this one.

the m1-abrams tank is driven by a turbine. i'll wager the horsepower 
in the 1000 range.

the xk is a bit on the light side i think.

now this may be tongue in cheek, but then again, when someone told me 
that the word gullible was not in the dictionary, i looked it up...


dennis

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Subject: XK applications
Author: <@David_Berman (David Berman) > at internet-sd
Date: 1/29/98 1:16 PM

I have been told that the XK engine is used in British tanks. Can the
Brits on the list confirm?

-David

At 06:35 PM 1/29/98 +0100, Stefan Knappe wrote:

WOW Jaguar engines in fire trucks!
What did they put in the garbage trucks?
Brett
1990 XJ6
New Jersey, USA

Hi,
where I live they put Mercedes engines in garbage trucks :slight_smile:

Stefan Knappe
Frankfurt/Germany

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Hi David.

You wrote:
<I have been told that the XK engine is used in British tanks. Can the
Brits on the list confirm?>

It was never used in a ‘Tank’ per se, but was often used in fighting
vehicles. The Saracen armoured car, I think, and some others.
Daimler used to make the standard British ambulance once.

The Chieftain tank has various power plants I believe, typically Rolls
Royce 0.75MW turbo intercooler diesels, and some more ominous ‘doomsday’
engines which allegedly are air cooled two strokes, about 20 litres, which
run in nuclear winters on ANYTHING. But I speak from hearsay, not from
direct knowlege.

Chris Dupres
'88 Sovereign,
Surrey, UK.