Reversed Engines

In the article Vintage Aircraft and Cars at Finmere in your Sept. issue it was mentioned that the FWD Alvis engine ran the opposite way to normal. There was another famous can with the engine running the opposite way: the CitroCn FWD 15/six GIG for gauche, built from 1937 to 1946147. At this time to the end of its production the 15/six got a clockwise rusting engine and became the 15/six0 (0 for droit h As one could presume, neither the engine of the 15CV “Rosalie” nor the six-cylinder engine of a commercial Citro6n was put the wrong way round Mto the front-wheel-drive car, as the exhaust of all engines wanes the same side. The my knowledge nobody — the Citroen historians included — knows today why the first 15isix engine ran the wrong way. But maybe one of your readers would?

Always hopeful to find MOTOR SPORT every month in my letter-box. Pt. Laney, Switzerland K. BEDDIG