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May 10, 2019
2 minutes
Was this the world’s first overhead cam engine design? From the little we can find, it just may have been. Patented by engineer J.W. Raymond, San Francisco, California, in 1892, it preceded the overhead camshaft Springfield Model A, produced by Springfield Gas Engine Co., Springfield, Ohio, starting in 1895.
In Raymond’s design the camshaft was mounted horizontally
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