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Munro's Indian on display in Invercargill. In its final stages, the Indian's displacement was 950 cc (as built it was 600 cc) and was driven by a triple chain drive system. [2] The "Munro Special," as Munro called his bike, is now owned by Neville Hayes, in New Zealand's South Island, and is on display at E Hayes & Sons, Invercargill. [7]
The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the story of New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. [1] Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1,000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and ...
Polish operator PolskiBus purchased 20 with Plaxton Elite i bodies, [5] [6] while New Zealand operator ManaBus has purchased a fleet of Kiwi Bus Builders bodied B11Rs. [ 7 ] In the Philippines, B11R is being introduced by Autodelta Coach Builders, Inc., which is the sole distributor of Volvo Buses in the country.
Indian Motorcycle Showcases New Engine with Custom-Built "Spirit of Munro" Streamliner One-of-a-Kind Vehicle Powered by All-New Thunder Stroke 111 Engine Pays Tribute to Burt Munro's 'Munro ...
LASL planned to conduct two tests with Kiwi B, an intermediate 1,000 MW design, in 1961 and 1962, followed by two tests of Kiwi C, a prototype engine, in 1963, and have a reactor in-flight test (RIFT) of a production engine in 1964. [26] For Kiwi B, LASL made several design changes to get the required higher performance.
The Kaveri engine has been specifically designed for the Indian operating environment, which ranges from hot desert to the highest mountain range in the world. The GTRE 's design envisions achieving a fan pressure ratio of 4:1 and an overall pressure ratio of 27:1, which it believes will permit the Tejas to " supercruise " (cruise ...
The DK class proposal was shelved, with Toll instead working on a different locomotive concept known as the DL class. Toll's DL class was based on building a brand new double-cab clone of the DX class locomotives, using common components from the DX class such as the same bogies, traction motors, and General Electric 7FDL-12 engine. Still, all ...
At launch, the only engine available was a three-cylinder, 799 cc unit with a 40 kW (54 hp) power output and 72 N⋅m (53 lb⋅ft) torque, coupled to a 5-speed manual transmission. According to the Indian newspaper The Financial Express , Kwid's 300-litre boot space is "the most voluminous in its class" and its fuel efficiency is "class-leading ...