Marine Engine Use
Inline twins are common in marine use both inboard and outboard, such as the Suzuki 15 models, and as jet pump motors.
From the 1950s, manufacturers of outboard motors had settled on the use of the basic inline engine design, cylinders stacked on top of each other with the crankshaft driving the propellor shaft. An experimental engine used two inline engine blocks joined in order to make a square-four engine.
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