Propulsion world could turn on Axis Drive

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It was in 1959 that American Jim Wynne designed the first commercially viable stern drive system and up until that time, other than water jet, it was only possible to have direct shaft drive or an outboard motor. Curious that exactly 50 years after Wynne’ s collaboration with Volvo, another ...

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