You have to remember that Wikipedia is a user written compendium with little or no fact checking. In fact, if you look at the stats on the web sites you'll find the following...
"There are 13,000 active contributors working on over 1,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages. As of today, there are 805,445 articles in English; every day hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to enhance the amount of knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Visitors do not need any special qualifications to contribute, and people of all ages help to write Wikipedia articles." This is all part and parcel of the movement that thinks that anything anyone says is valid because it represents what they "feel". To question the veracity of the data is not politically correct. BULLSH!T. Royce Engler 1985 300TD Turbo 265K -----Original Message----- From: John Ervine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:33 PM To: Mercedes mailing list Subject: Re: [MBZ] What is a diesel, part II (INTERESTING!) Peter Frederick wrote: > Wikipedia has the data wrong, I suspect You think? ;-) For a very thorough biography of Rudolf Diesel, pick up a copy of Nitske's "Mercedes-Benz Diesel Automobiles". The first chapter provides an interesting timeline into the various early developmental engines, ideas, and fuels that Diesel was toying with. -- John L. Ervine 1981 240D 4-spd 268+kmi 1980 300TD 170+kmi 1980 300SD 277+kmi 1977 280S 4-spd 80+kmi
