[David_Hayward (RIP)]

...a 'motor' to a North American is an 'engine' to the rest of the world, and in the rest of the world a 'motor' is electrically-powered and usually provided by current from an accumulator aka battery! However, in railway parlance, an 'engine' is a 'locomotive', and a diesel-electric locomotive has an engine and motors! Forgive me but I have spent over a week doing nothing but editing a book on diesel-electric locomotives written by a guy whose English is worse than my 7-year old's!

Just thought, to us of a certain age, a Morris Minor had a 'starter', which meant that when the accumulator was flat so not providing power to the starter motor, the Husband was used to start the engine with a starting handle inserted into the crankshaft end...hence Husband = starter!