Anyone got any, or know of any, accurate drawings/plans of the Armstrong Whitworth Lynx engine of 1925 vintage? Could be the Armstrong Siddeley Lynx at this time, the name changed when the company was bought out.
It’s the engine that was fitted to the Vickers Vedette Canadian flying boat.
Anything anyone can come up with to enable a profile to be painted and a 1/72nd scale model engine built will be of great help.
BTW: I have Googled till my fingers bleed, and been through every search engine I can think of………….
Thanks in anticipation……………………
By: RPSmith - 8th August 2008 at 09:44
Bryan,
Have now got Tom Smith’s e-mail to hand – will PM it to you.
Roger Smith.
By: John Aeroclub - 6th August 2008 at 22:37
Bryan. I probably have what you want. Email me.
John
By: Pondskater - 6th August 2008 at 19:37
Hi Bryan,
There may be some info in documents in the National Archives at Kew as well
AIR 10/1306 is “Lynx IV Aero Engine: Descriptive Handbook (1927)
Also have a look at this list here. There may be one or two other of use. Hard to tell without seeing the documents though. Sometimes they have drawings, sometimes they don’t.
All the best
Allan
By: RPSmith - 6th August 2008 at 19:36
I don’t think any of the Parkside engines carried the name “Whitworth” all being either Siddeley ____ (as in Siddeley Puma) or Armstrong Siddeley ____(as in Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah) and, later, Bristol Siddeley before becoming Rolls Royce. So the engine in question is an Armstrong Siddeley Lynx.
Best contact would be the Rolls Royce Heritage Trust, Coventry Branch. The Secretary is Tom Smith – I don’t have an e-mail address to hand but will post one (if no one else does it first).
Roger Smith.
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