The Beardmore 160 hp is a British six-cylinder, water-cooled

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that first ran in 1916, it was built by

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and

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for

William Beardmore and Company William Beardmore and Company was a British engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid-1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. It was founded and ...

as a development of the

Beardmore 120 hp The Beardmore 120 hp was a British six-cylinder, water-cooled aero engine that first ran in 1914, it was built by William Beardmore and Company as a licensed-built version of the Austro-Daimler 6. The engine featured cast iron cylinders an ...

, itself a licensed-built version of the

Austro-Daimler 6 The Austro-Daimler 6 was a series of Austrian six-cylinder water-cooled inline SOHC aero engines first produced in 1910 by the Austro-Daimler company. Design and development The first Austro-Daimler six-cylinder engine was designed by Dr-Ing F ...

Development

The engine featured cast iron

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and mild steel concave

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s. Produced between March 1916 and December 1918, the design powered many World War I aircraft types. It was noted that the engine was not as reliable as its smaller capacity predecessor.

Applications

* Airco DH.3 * Armstrong Whitworth F.K.7 * Austin Kestrel * Beardmore W.B.II * Beardmore W.B.X * Central Centaur IIA * Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.6 * Martinsyde G.102 * Norman Thompson N.T.2B *

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* Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7 * Short Sporting Type * Supermarine Channel * Supermarine Sea King * Vickers F.B.14

Survivors

A Beardmore 160 hp has been restored to airworthy condition by The Vintage Aviator Ltd, an aircraft restoration company based in

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. The engine was found complete and in a preserved condition in a farm shed in

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, after a complete overhaul and ground test runs the engine powered the company's F.E.2b replica on its maiden flight.Beardmore 160 hp restoration
thevintageaviator.co.nz - Retrieved: 2 October 2009

Engines on display

*A partially sectioned Beardmore 160 hp is on display at the

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. *The Beardmore 160 hp engine installed in the recently restored F.E.2 can be viewed at the

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Specifications (160 hp)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. * ''Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I''. London. Studio Editions Ltd, 1993. * Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

External links

thevintageaviator.co.nz - Video of ground running a restored Beardmore 160 hp
{{Beardmore aeroengines 1910s aircraft piston engines 160