Talk:Wärtsilä Vasa

Wärtsilä Vasa
The "Vasa" engines were models 24 (formerly the model name was 14), 22 and 32. 46 can be maybe counted as Vasa engine as well because its original name indeed was Vasa 46. But as the latter engine types were built in Turku factory, the locals didn't like the Vasa name and it was soon dropped off, so the engine was (and still is) called simply Wärtsilä 46. The name Vasa was not used in any engine model after that. It was also formally dropped off from all other engine types but the original model 32 is often called "Vasa 32" to make the difference to its successor, Wärtsilä 32F (built from 1995?) which has got nothing in common with Vasa 32. Another reason to stop using the Vasa name is probably that building of licence engines ceased in mid 1990's (as far as I know the last ones were few Sulzer ZA40's built in Turku) and there was no need to mark off the own designed engines any more. --Gwafton (talk) 23:01, 20 September 2011 (UTC)