Headless engine

A headless engine or fixed head engine[1] is an engine where the end of the cylinder is cast as one piece with the cylinder and crankcase.[2] The most well known headless engines are the Fairbanks-Morse Z and the Witte Headless hit and miss engine[3]

  1. ^ Goodsell, Don (2016-06-27). Dictionary of Automotive Engineering. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-1-4831-0496-6.
  2. ^ "Fairbanks Morse headless engine 1917". www.practicalmachinist.com. 4 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Headless Witte Engines". www.oldengine.org. Archived from the original on 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2019-11-22.