Engine – Rolls-Royce R.B.163 Spey 505-5
One of the first of the by-pass or turbo fan latest technology engines, the Spey entered service in April 1964 and has proved to be a sturdy, …
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Engine – Bristol Hercules 763
This sleeve-valve as its name implies has the inlet and exhaust valves in the form of a sleeve working between the piston and cylinder wall and driven …
Engine – Daimler Benz DB610
The DB610 engine is made by joining two DB605 engines; these are coupled together by means of a clutch and gearbox to drive a single four bladed …
Engine – de Havilland Ghost 50
The Ghost is larger and more powerful than the Goblin and is again distinguished from the Goblin by having only 10 combustion chambers. The Ghost was developed …
Morris Minor Traveller
This Morris Traveller, British Army, staff car was presented to the Museum by No. 24 Base Workshops; It was rebuilt by apprentices of 24 Base Workshop REME, …
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy 1
We have little information on this engine. It is one of the very early Gipsy types and dates from the late 1920s. Gipsy engines were originally designed …
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy Major
This is a famous engine and will be remembered by many as the engine which powered the famous DH Tiger Moth, the aircraft which thousands of RAF …
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy Queen 175
This is an inverted air-cooled six-cylinder engine and in general resembles the inverted four-cylinder ones, usually representing developments of the latter type for higher power. Bore 4.72ins, …
Engine – de Havilland Goblin 2
In the race to get a viable engine from Whittle’s design, de Havilland were also asked to develop a gas turbine. Halford, de Havilland’s engine designer, used …
Engine – Junkers Jumo 205
The Junkers Jumo 205 came from the opposed-piston, vertical cylinder, two stroke liquid-cooled pattern. Typical examples of this type of engine were the Jumo 204 (750hp), 205-C …
Engine – Alvis Leonides 128
This post-war derivative of the Alvis 9ARS appeared in numerous sub-variants. The Leonides is a 9-cylinder, air-cooled single-row radial poppet-valve engine. The Leonides 503/7A, Mk 128 01/2, …
Engine – Alvis Leonides Major
A 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine, the Leonides Major 755/1. Mk 155, 780hp seen here, is a medium supercharged, de-rated engine. It is an oblique, direct-drive helicopter engine …
Engine – Anzani 6-Cylinder
It was an Anzani engine which powered the tiny monoplane in which M. Bleriot made the memorable first flight across the English Channel on 25 July 1909. …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah XV
We are not sure of the mark number of this engine as the nameplate was missing on receipt, but it is typical of all the Cheetah engines …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Avon R.A.3-101
The Avon was tested in mid 1947. At 6000lb static thrust it made its first public display at the 1948 Farnborough Show in a Lancastrian flying test-bed …