The Dark Story Behind the Napier Deltic: The Bizarre Triangle Engine Powering Rails and Warships UK [Diesel]

What happens when engineers build something that works perfectly — and the world still finds a way to make it disappear? The Napier Deltic was a genuinely bizarre piece of engineering: a diesel engine shaped like an equilateral triangle, with three crankshafts, thirty-six pistons, and no cylinder heads at all. Born out of postwar desperation at D. Napier and Son — a company that had built some of the most powerful aircraft engines of the Second World War and suddenly had no aircraft left to power — the Deltic went on to serve in Royal Navy minesweepers for over thirty...