Illustrated description of 6800-bhp 6-cyl engine driven by three lever-driven scavenge pumps, built by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, for high powered single crew vessel being constructed by builders for Port Line; engine has cylinders 670 mm in diam with combined stroke of 2320 mm, is capable of developing 6600 bhp at 115/116 rpm and has overload capacity of 10% for several hours. (See also Brit Motor Ship v 26 n 308 Sept 1945 p 194-6)


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    Title :

    Swan-Hunter Doxford engine


    Additional title:

    Mar Engr


    Published in:

    Marine Engineer ; 68 , n 818


    Publication date :

    1945


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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