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 ...

One hundred was a lot of horsepower in 1914, even for an 8.0-liter engine in a low-production luxury car. Yet 100 was the figure claimed for the remarkable Stearns-Knight Six, of which at least 350 ...

The Willys-Knight, built by Willys-Overland of Toledo, Ohio, from 1914 to 1932 is remembered for its ultra-quiet Knight sleeve-valve engine. Although it was also used in European luxury cars and the ...

The ultraminiature M3SV-N threaded slide-sleeve valve controls gas or liquid in an in-line configuration. The 4.6-gm valve can be attached directly in a fluid circuit and requires no panel mounting.

Specialist polyurethane product manufacturer Urethane Moulded Products (UMP) completed the development of a new tooling system in December that has enabled the company to manufacture 600-mm-diameter ...

Continental, a successful manufacturer of automotive engines, purchased the rights for a Burt-McCollum single-sleeve valve engine design in 1925. Believing this technology might replace poppet valves ...