Aeroplane engine, used in Avro 618 Ten airliner

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This Lynx aero-engine was made around 1933 by Armstrong Siddeley. It is one of three engines which powered an Avro 618 Ten airliner operated by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. This aircraft, which carried two crew and up to eight passengers, was based at Renfrew.

The seven-cylinder air-cooled radial engine has a 13.3 litres capacity and developed 240 horsepower.

The Avro 618 Ten was a licence-built Fokker FV116 three-engined transport plane. The Fokker FV116 was widely used around the world in the late 1920s. This type was made famous as the aircraft that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith flew from the United States to Australia on the first crossing of the Pacific Ocean by air in 1928. In the same year, Smith and 'Southern Cross' flew across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand for the first time.

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• Online ID: 000-100-104-516-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  T.1968.X.53
• Date: Around 1933
  c. 1933
  
• Material: Aero-engine
  
• Dimensions: 47.00" L x 45.60" D
  
• What: Aero-engine
  
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• Who: Armstrong Siddeley (Maker)
  Avro (Aircraft manufacturer)
  
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• Description: Armstrong Siddeley Lynx aero-engine, c. 1933, a seven-cylinder single-row radial air-cooled engine for mounting on the wing nacelle of an Avro 618 Ten
  
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