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Clerget 4v 50HP engine
Good afternoon,
I represent a NGO looking for more technical information about 1909 Clerget 4v, 4strike, 45HP engine that seems to be inside R C Shelley Collection.
We intended to buy or rebuild a Clerget 4V 45HP engine in order to make a fully functional replica of an aircraft that was powered by that engine, back in 1910.
Would you please help us to contact the owner of the collection:
I really appreciate a positive answer.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Sorin Dinea
NGO Henri Coanda Association
http://www.jet100.com
[email]henricoanda.contact@gmail.com[/email]
My father and I spent a lot of time searching for and collecting rare aero engines, circa late 1960s to late 1980s. We very much enjoyed walking about our aviation parts business, museum and collector aircraft and parts, each morning, with most of the vintage engines on display, around our “shop.”
We had over 175 pre-WWII aero engines; 48 were WWI and earlier; and 19 were either the only ones built, or the only known survivor, of their type.Includeed several versions of Anzani, Aeronca, Alfa Romeo, Cirrus, (many types & eras of) Curtiss, Gipsey, Gnomes Heath, Hirth, Hispano-Suizas, Jacobs, Kinners, Liberty,Menasco, 8 cyl, radial, diesel Humboldt-Duetz, Renaults, Salmsons, Sturtevants, Velie, Walter, Wright etc etc. Had several BRAND NEW Clergets. Also had a number of WWII and later engines, such as a massive 24 cylinder Allison, and a couple of firewall forward (including all cowling, mounts & props) Argus AS411s etc.
We corresponded with fellow-collector R,C, Shelley, a number of times, trying to trade for the elusive Napier Lion, (as one of the highest priorities of engines we wished to acquire) but no luck. Lots of tales behind all those treasure hunts. Here is a photo of our shop, with just the Main engine grouping. Many others, including one of my favorites, a 1909 British Humber, 3 cyl. fan engine, in beautiful condition, lined the various walls and walkways of our main building. Mr. Shelley had sent us many nice photos of the engines in his collection. As I never throw ANYthing away (much to my wife’s dismay), I still have all letters and correspondence of these collections, back to the late 1960s.