When's a x-flow not a x-flow?

[Phssthpok]

….I was thumbing through a friend’s (honest) copy of the current issue of Back Street Heroes when I chanced upon a picture of a trike chop with a x-flow engine. Nothing strange about that you might say except this x-flow had the inlet and exhaust on the same side so, by definition, couldn’t have been a x-flow except in every other detail it was. I’m sure that 99% of you are now chortling into your pints at my ignorance, so what was it?

[Bob Green]

It may have been a pre-crossflow Ford engine that was fitted in Mk1 Cortina's, Anglia's etc.  If my memory serves me right, that type of engine ranged from 997cc, 1200cc, 1340cc and 1500cc.  There was a 1558cc that was fitted into the twin cam 8 valve Lotus Cortina.  They were a good engine in it's day and could be easily tuned.

[Phssthpok]

....oh.