Chevaux Vapeur   (translated from German)
Chevaux Vapeur Chevaux Vapeur (too German Steam horses) or briefly CV ...
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Horsepower
... French unit for tax horsepower, short for chevaux vapeur ("steam horses") or cheval-vapeur, hence Citroën 2CV. In Italian ("Cavalli"), Spanish ... power. The symbol ch is short for chevaux ("horses"). Some sources give it as 735 ...
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Citroën 2CV   (translated from Dutch)
... Citroën . The abbreviations stand in front "deux Chevaux Vapeur", what "two steam horses" means. ' Chevaux Vapeur ' are a French half-measure for the ...
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CV   (translated from German)
... a former railway company in the USA Chevaux Vapeur, that franzoesischen unit for calculation that Kraftfahrzeugsteuer ...
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Horse power   (translated from German)
... French one CV Those franzoesische correspondence CV (Chevaux Vapeur, too German Steam horses) godfather stood during ...
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Talk:Citroën 2CV
... of the term 2CV is not deux chevaux! The CV seems to be a unit ... hvorfor-cv.shtml Christian Dyrop CV = Cheval Vapeur (Steam Horse) the expression was already old ...
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