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The four-cylinder’s history in Europe and USA

Four cylinders were made in the early 1920s by manufacturers such as ACE, India, Excelsior, Henderson, Pierce and Cleveland in the USA, as well as in Europe by Nimbus in Denmark, Ariel and Matchless in the UK, and the first manufacturer, FN in Belgium. And those first four-cylinders from FN were even produced with shaft drive! Although there were four-cylinder engines

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