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g_kandylakis
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Well, that wasn’t long, was it?

A more careful look at the photographs brought out the first problem. The engine in Sywell and that in Denmark are different ones…

The Sywell, as the one in my section drawing have cylinders with approx 23 colling fins.

The one in Denmark has 34… Also the crankcase is markedly different.

Checking old Flight advertisments for the Lynx, I also count 23-24 fins, for an engine captioned as 180 h.p Lynx. The rather blurry pictures of the Greek Avros also seem to be 23, plus in a Flight issue of 1925-26 the engine is stated as 180h.p. So this seems to be a good match.

My only problem is I need to discharge all the information of the Danish engine, as it is probably a different model. Maybe a 240 hp?

But the caption of the Sywell plaque also states 240hp supercharged?

Help???

If, as it seems, the Sywell engine and the one usd by the greek Avros is one and the same, then I wouldn’t mind some more pictures, if it is not too much of a trouble. Feel free to improvise about the number and angles…

Thanks (again) in advance

George