Re: [T3] SB with IV engine--was Wasser engine

[Constantino Tobio <ctobio@gmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Dave Hall wrote:

> Not much VW about the design of those early water-cooled. Mostly Audi 
> designs
>
> basically.
>  

One could argue that there was a lot of NSU in those early designs, more 
so even than Audi. Audi had long been building 2-stroke vehicles before 
being sold to VW in '64, and the "Audi" was their first 4-stroke 
offering in a while. In fact, it wasn't too long before the sale of Auto 
Union to VW that all they were producing was DKW motorcycles and some 
delivery vans. NSU had been producing cars since '58 but had fallen on 
hard times owing to the high-profile failures of their rotary engined 
vehicles.

Historical footnote I just love: NSU originally started off as 
Neckarshulm Strickmaschinenfabrik, the Neckarshulm Knitting (or Sewing) 
Machine Factory.

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