This Day in History Feb. 1

blue water massey

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Feb. 1

1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story
is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York (Toronto)
1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen
1861 Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1920 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)
1920 R.C.M.P forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1942 U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls?Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the US against
Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1944 US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion - US nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1968 Canada's three military services, are unified into the Canadian Forces
1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends
 
Any oe familiar with the Wankel engine? I hear good and bad. Good: Simple, runs forever, good mileage. Bad: Uses oil, difficult to modify performance tune.

THoughts and experience?
 
The wild thing about Wankel engines is the power curve, the power never drops off, the faster they spin the more power they make right up until the time they revert back into un-assembled pieces flying through the hood.
 
Don't know much about them but rode a Suzuki that had one in it. 500cc @ 62hp. Some snowmobiles had them too, along with Mazda. Bike was a smooth runner.
Zuke 500
 
I knew a woman who bought a new mid 70s Mazda RX3 with the Wankel in it.
5 years/35 miles later she sold it for scrap.
It burned, blew and leaked oil faster than you could pour it in.
 
One of my high school buds turboed a RX3. His parrents had money, so he dumped a ton of parts on it. It never did crater, but had detonation and hesitation problems.

I only drove it once. Step in it, not much happened the first 1/2 second... But then, you better have it aimed in the direction you wanted to go, cause it got real serious real quick! I think under the right conditions it would lift the front wheels, I know you could feel the steering go limp! The reason I drove it was he brought it in for me to repair the rear end, it had spread the housing, pushed the ring gear away from the pinion!
 
Thanks for the infomation Hendrik. I was 10 years old and lived on the Notts and Lincs border at the time. My farther was a bus
driver with a Lincolnshire company and was sent to the Lincs coast to help with flooding. In 1970 I bought a Oliver 70 rowcrop tractor that was used in the evacuation of Mablethorpe. MJ
 
Very high power:displacement ratio. Very poor thermal efficiency, combined with oil usage (oil was injected into the combination chamber to help seal it), resulted in high emissions.
 

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