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1911
1911 - 0256.PDF
[/JJGHT MARCH 25, 191» ro>,i^Y-^n^ny^ ENGINES. The "A. B.C." (STAND 10).—This engine is made by the "All British" (Engine) Co., Ltd., Redbridge, Hants, and, as its name implies, is manufactured throughout in Great Britain. There are three different types, the 40-h.p., the 60-h.p., stroke of 98 mm. by 135 mm. and weighs 176 lbs. and develops 32-h.p, at 1,250 r.p.m. The 45-h.p. has a bore of 105 mm. and a stroke of 160 mm. and develops its nominal power at 1,200 r.p.m. It weighs 242 lbs. The dimensions of the A Dansette-Gillct engine on a Voisln biplane. and the 120-h.p. ; the 40-h.p. having four separate vertical cylinders with a bore and stroke of 4$ ins. by 4I ins. and the weight complete with all accessories, but without fly wheel, being 185 lbs. The fly-wheel weighs 20 lbs. The 60-h.p. is an 8-cylinder V type engine, with the cylinders set at 90*, which, of course, gives equal firing intervals. The bore and stroke are the same as in the 40-h.p. The weight complete is 275 lbs., or with fly-wheel, iS lbs. extra. The 120-h.p. engine differs only from the 60-h.p. in the number of cylinders, which in this case is twelve. The weight complete is 400 lbs., and that of the fly-wheel 16 lbs4 The cylinders are made of cast-iron, specially strengthened with steel belts, by which method of construction it is claimed that the lightness associated with steel cylinders is obtained without their drawbacks. The water-jacket is composed of a seamless spun copper sleeve, corrugated to allow for ex pansion and contraction, and secured and made watertight by means of steel shrinking rings. Dansette-Gillet (Exhibited by the GENERAL AVIATION CON TRACT CO.) (STAND 19).—These engines are made in three types of the same design and the same external appearance. The cylinders are vertical and separate, and are machined from solid steel. Separate copper water-jackets to each cylinder. Valves in the cylinder-heads operated by tappets. Lubrica tion forced by pump under pressure to all bearings. Ignition by high-tension magneto. The 32-h.p. engine has a bore and View of the Dansette-Gillet engine with its propeller. DANSETTE - GILLET ENGINE AT Sectional drawing. OLYMPIA. Two views of the Dansette-Glllet engine. 258
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