Abstract
Although the vehicular diesel engine was initially introduced by both Daimler Benz and MAN in 1924,commercial activities on automotive diesel engine were began on 1930's in European country. It was very interested that these competitive situation for newly developed vehicular diesel engine was quite same in Japan in 1930's simultaneously. Although only 2 engines made in 1940 was existed in Japan already, luckily a very unique engine made by Gas-den (predecessor of Hino Motors) made in 1937 was discovered recently. This is report on this engine.
