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Subject:Re: Is it Wasserboxer or waterboxer?
From:David Beierl
Date:Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:36:26 -0500
At 12:41 PM 12/30/2001, developtrust wrote:
>Correct me please,
>
>I read somewhere that "Wasser" was the name of the person who engineered the
>VW engine with pistons that "box" each other, or was that a joke or a myth?

Horizontally-opposed (flat, pancake) engines are called "boxers" because as
you say the pistons appear to box with each other.

>vanagon.com so when someone said "Wasser" was the inventor's name was he
>pulling our proverbial leg?

Yes.  Tell him to try the other one, it has bells on it.

david

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