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Figure 1.23 Cylinder and crankthrow arrangements: (a) inline four-cylinder (b) in-line six-cylinder (c) V eight-cylinder (d)
horizontally opposed four-cylinder
standards organizations. In the case of in-line engines
the cylinders are simply numbered consecutively, be-
ginning from the nose end of the crankshaft. For V and
horizontally opposed engines, the British Standards
(BS) practice is to number the cylinders in sequence
for each bank, beginning from the nose of the crank-
shaft ...