Austro-Daimler engine
From Angle (1921):[1]
The Austro-Daimler was one of the first airplane engines to attain any marked degree of success. Prior to the war it had been adopted for both airplane and dirigibles by the British, Russian, Italian, Austrian, and German armies.
Numerous early records were made by airplanes equipped with Austro-Daimler engines. The six-cylinder 120-h.p. engine was used in a Cody biplane, which won the ₤5000 prize during the British military trials of 1912. Oelerich broke the world's altitude record in July, 1914, at Leipzig, by climbing to 24,800 ft. in an all-steel military D. F. W. biplane fitted with a 120-h.p. Austro-Daimler engine. During the war the 200-h.p. engine was used in the Austrian "Berg" scout.
First built in Austria from designs by Ferdinand Porsche. Later made in Scotland by Arrol Johnston of Dumfries and William Beardmore & Son in Glasgow. "The latter firms have improved the design and continue to build the six-cylinder engines under the name of Beardmore.[1]
(This quite likely was constructed under the auspices of Österreichische Daimler Motoren A. G.)
The first of these engines were used in an Etrich III ("Möve") and the Vindobona built by Adolf Warchalowski.[2]
Publications referring to Austro-Daimler engine
- Publication B2p0099e07, 1913, The Austro Daimler motor (Simple title: The Austro Daimler motor, Journal: Aeronautics)
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