Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
Technical Series Reviews - Special Offerings
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Sectioned Drawings Softbound, 420mm x 296mm x 5mm, 80 pages Recommended Retail Price: 36 drawing spreads |
Reviewed by Kimble D. McCutcheon
Born in 1924, Lyndon Jones trained as a flight mechanic after joining the Royal Air Force in 1942. While working on a wide range of aircraft both in the UK and elsewhere, Jones learned the basics of aeronautical engineering and developed a talent for drawing. After WWII he worked for Handley Page, Rolls-Royce, Gloster Aircraft Company, and Atomic Energy Research Establishment as a technical artist. From WWII onward he produced a series of sectioned drawings of airplanes, engines, steam locomotives, motorcycles and even cathedrals. Upon his retirement, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust received custody of his engine drawings, which form the content of this book.
Each of the 36 double-A3-sized spreads features a sectioned engine drawing, a description, detail drawings of the engine internals and/or installation, and often a drawing of an airplane in which the engine flew. This is an outstanding reference for the engine enthusiast; it's not bad eye candy either.
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Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII Rolls-Royce Falcon III Napier Lion XI Rolls-Royce Condor IIIA Rolls-Royce Kestrel V Rolls-Royce Buzzard Rolls-Royce 'R' Engine Rolls-Royce Kestrel with Sleeve Valves de Havilland Gipsy Major de Havilland Gipsy Six Junkers Jumo 205D Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah IX Bristol Pegasus XVIII de Havilland Gipsy Twelve Junkers Jumo 211 D Rolls-Royce Peregrine I Bristol Hercules XVI Rolls-Royce Vulture II |
Daimler Benz DB 601 Rolls-Royce Merlin XX BMW 801 D Armstrong Siddeley Deerhound Rolls-Royce H Merlin Allison V-1710-39 Wright yclone R-1820-97 Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830-65 Napier Sabre V Bristol Hercules 100 Rolls-Royce Merlin 113/114 Rolls-Royce Merlin 130/131 Rolls-Royce Griffon 65 Bristol Centaurus 18 Rolls-Royce Eagle 22 Rolls-Royce Crecy II Rolls-Royce Pennine Napier Nomad 2 |
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Alex Moulton Softbound, 208mm x 294mm x 20mm, 320 pages Recommended Retail Price: Over 300 photographs/illustrations |
Reviewed by Doug Culy
This book is primarily a personal diary of a very technically inclined member of the British privileged class. Alex Moulton’s story of his life is told in 320 pages, including appendices, and involves four phases: growing up and getting educated, including a delayed doctorate in engineering; work at Bristol Engines, mostly on the Centaurus radial; work in the family business of elastomeric (rubber) suspensions for vehicles; designing and producing his own bicycle of unusual geometry, steam engines, and pastimes. The rubber and bicycle periods are the most lengthy, and make the most interesting design and industrial-history discussion. Only twenty pages cover the Bristol Centaurus period, and Moulton wound up working on his boss’s (Roy Fedden) car project some of the time during the Bristol and rubber phases. Sixty nine pages of technical notes taken during the educational times (formal and informal) in his life are included. This reviewer was hoping for more lessons learned in the Centaurus program.
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