CRANKLESS ENGINE.
EXHIBITED AT MELBOURNE SHOW. A crankless engine of six cylinders and six horse-power, called an '"X" engine, was exhibited at tho Melbourne Show. It is an Australian invention, and big things are claimed for it. The engine exhibited weighs only 301b. Its inventors are Messrs Turner and Quick, two Melbourne men, and they claim that the engine, driven by steam or petrol, is suitable for motor-cars aeroplanes, or ships, and can be designed to give practically any revolutions required. it may have a great future as a means of land propulsion, it is said the inventors belieye that its chief use will bo found on the water.
Messrs Turner and Quick state that with an "X" engine, weighing 70 tons, they can get greater efficiency than a 210-ton German Diesel engine, developing ISOO brake-power _ at 110 driving shaft revolutions a minute.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 4
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