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The Hercules : The Other Engine that helped Win the War by Wilson, Gordon A. A.

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Author: Wilson, Gordon A. A.

Manufacturing industries

Published on 15 August 2024 by Amberley Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages, 16 Plates, black and white
234 x 156 | 626g

The Bristol Hercules was a 14-cylinder sleeve valve radial engine designed by Sir Roy Fedden and produced from 1939 by BAC. It powered Bristols own Beaufighter but was more commonly used on bombers. From the 1375 hp Hercules I to the 1735 hp Hercules XVII produced late in the war, the variants powered the Avro Lancaster B.II, the Handley Page Halifax, the Short Stirling, the Vickers Wellesley and the Vickers Wellington, among others. The sleeve valve engine was an efficient configuration that allowed the use of lower-octane fuels for the same compression ratio. It was clever, and it worked. Gordon Wilson provides a biography of this ingenious workhorse, designed and modified under the pressure of wartime. He ha

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The Hercules : The Other Engine that helped Win the War by Wilson, Gordon A. A.