None of the touted features found in the Gurney-Weslake V12 were new, they had each appeared previously in Grand Prix engines, but this was the first time they were all incorporated into one design in their most effective combination and it pioneered the modern narrow valve-included angle (V...
It is generally accepted fact nowadays that the stubborn protection of the national currency was among the main reasons for the severity and duration of the Great Depression. This 'striking degree of consensus', as Barry Eichengreen has put it (1992: 213), suggests...
and was laterexpandedto include data through 2009, a span of 84 years that covers a wide range of economic environments including 2 World Wars, the Great Depression, the oil embargo and high inflation period of the 1970’s, and the Boom period of the 1980’s ...