In April 1908, Knight licensed his design to Daimler for further development and production, and by September, Daimler began installing the single sliding-sleeve valve "Silent Knight" engine in ...

Charles Yale Knight invented the sleeve valve engine in the early 1900s, and within the next two decades, it became somewhat popular in contemporary luxury cars like those made by Willys.

SIMPLICITY is the keynote of the only two types of sleeve-valve engines that have stood the test of time, namely, the double-sleeve, or Knight, engine and the single-sleeve, or Burt-McCollum, engine, ...

The ultraminiature M3SV-N threaded slide-sleeve valve controls gas or liquid in an in-line configuration. The 4.6-gm valve can be attached directly in a fluid circuit and requires no panel mounting.

An ailing Frank Stearns retired soon after, but in the 1920s Stearns-Knight offered another six and eventually a sleeve-valve straight-eight (see Escape Roads, Nov. 3, 2003) before succumbing to ...

It packed a four-cylinder sleeve-valve engine, displacing 5.7 litres, which produced 35-40hp.