Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, to our Hall of Internal Combustion Oddities! Hurry, hurry, hurry, and set your eyes on the strangest engines you've ever beheld! Witness BRM's H16, formed from the ...

The four-stroke Otto cycle engine is the reigning king of internal combustion (in the diesel-averse United States, at least), which makes it easy to forget about all those other wacky would-be ...

The British Transport Commission's document, Modernisation and Re-equipment of British Railways, published in December 1954 brought many far- reaching changes, not least the switch from steam to ...

Deltic Locomotives were built to replace the steam engines that once hurtled down the tracks between London and Edinburgh, but has not seen active service on British railways for 30 years. Now the ...