Motor?

Dave53-7C · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: Motor?

I always thought a motor consumed power and an engine produced power. Maybe this is an anomaly. Laughing

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51hornet · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:21 am Post subject: Re: Motor?

Guy must be Euro. When I was growing up in Ireland and England my Dad was a "Motor Mechanic" even the car was called a motor as in "Nice Motor" don't think it has anything to do with the correct semantics of the word. Just way of saying it that stuck. May be linked to fact lots of cars in the early days were electric.

Dave53-7C · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Motor?

You could be right about that. After all, we have words like motoring, motorcycle, motorclub, etc. Just couldn't help myself. Darn Euro's need to stop using words like boot, bonnet, gearbox and windscreen in an attempt to confuse us. Smile

51hornet · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

What about calling the front fender a wing?

Dave53-7C · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

How about calling the high beam dimmer switch an anti-dazzle switch? That's just plain fruity.

51hornet · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

Yeah we always called it the dip switch to dip the lights.

Dave53-7C · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

Dip switch sounds better than anti-dazzle any day. Sorry, but I think some of the British terms are just a tad on the femmy side.

51hornet · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

Yup all that crap has faded in my memory. When I go to Europe or Ireland I am all like WTF you saying to me about being a dip switch. Then I laugh and put my twin chrome plated 45's away and smile broadly.

Dave53-7C · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

Don't get me wrong, I have the greatest respect for our friends in the UK, but their men have been stereotyped over the years as being milktoasts. Rather, peep, peep and toodaloo. Laughing

baz1 · Hornet Joined: Oct 05, 2009 Posts: 55 Location: England

hi guys what wrong with the uk terminoligy! wind screen. Bonnet.. running boards. wings front or Back. Boot. Drop head. just the terms my dad used to describe car parts ( he was a Panel beater). anyway where do you guys get FENDER from its a guitar or a bouncy rubber thing they use on boats Ha Ha Baz

stone · Hornet Joined: Jul 31, 2009 Posts: 210 Location: france

in France one also says, wing before or wing postponed, or left front door and right backdoor and for Sean, one says a control unit of headlights, lol Laughing

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51hornet · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: Motor?

From what I have heard the US terminology comes from the fact the early car markets were bicycle makers so the descriptions such as fender came from its usage in bicycle fender. A fender that "fends" of a collision. Trunk of course came from the fact the early cars had "trunks" on them before the trunk became integrated into the car.

Hood and Bonnet seem to have the same derivative terminology so I can see that being similar. Windshield and Windscreen being the same way of saying the same thing as well.

Ah its all just good clean fun I have been exposed to every way of saying parts on a car.