The Type 41 Royale engine had massive displacement: 12.7 liters, or over 700 cubic inches, roughly twice the size of most of the largest production V-8s that would be built by Detroit four decades later. This is still the largest engine of any car to be sold privately.
A mere six Royale’s were produced and two were never sold, staying instead with the Bugatti estate.
More Royale engines by far were used in SNCF (French National Railway) locomotives than in cars. The French government bought several hundred of these motors and used them in pairs and even in triplicate to pull passenger railcars. Sadly, none of these engines are believed to have survived the war.
https://www.forbes.com/2001/11/05/1105vow.html
A mere six Royale’s were produced and two were never sold, staying instead with the Bugatti estate.
More Royale engines by far were used in SNCF (French National Railway) locomotives than in cars. The French government bought several hundred of these motors and used them in pairs and even in triplicate to pull passenger railcars. Sadly, none of these engines are believed to have survived the war.
https://www.forbes.com/2001/11/05/1105vow.html
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