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16th May 2020, 08:36 | #1 |
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Rover's gas turbine division
I recall reading a while back about the infamous jet1 and how it set various records but didn't realise how diverse their portfolio was. I'm assuming they were in bed with someone during the development, someone like Rolls Royce? Anyway for those that are interested here's a bit of reading and a video of a piece of kit that was seldom seen in a couple of places I used to work.
https://youtu.be/X_anKq-AUVY http://www.gasturbineworld.co.uk/rovergasturbine.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_JET1
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16th May 2020, 18:59 | #2 |
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Rover were world leaders jet wise back in the day. The Vulcan V bomber sports one of their engines. A deal was done with RR for the technology and the rest, is well, history.
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16th May 2020, 22:17 | #3 |
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There are both a Rover and Austin gas turbine generator sets at the Internal Fire Museum just north of Newcastle Emlyn in Wales . https://www.internalfire.com/about.php
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Mm . . . Was it not a Bristol Olympus, designed by Stanley Hooker (see his marvellous autobiography Not much of an Engineer), who were bought up by HS and later became RR Chief Design Engineer?
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18th May 2020, 18:58 | #5 |
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Olympus were the main engines, the Rover was the airborne auxillary power pack fitted to the Vulcan, Argosy, HS 748 aswell as a version in the Nimrod
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yep my time on Vulcans were Waddington for 6 months then Scampton 75 to 83 including a 14 month unaccompanied tour at Goose bay in 79 thro 80 before returning to Scampton and then on to Waddington for a few more months before moving on to the Scottish airforce. Happy days,
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The prototype APT train has ten Leyland gas turbines, not sure if these are descendants of the rover ones.
Can you imagine if the P6 had got gas turbines, knackered ones on estates been worked on and bodged by some barely sober loon on a Sunday morning while supported on a pile of bricks! I imagine older ones would have developed a reputation for engine explosions |
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