Ricado Engine for the MkV sectioned engine
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:41 am
In the excellent Anson Engine Museum in Poynton, Cheshire, UK is a sectioned engine. I thought it may be of interest to the WW1 tank makers.
There's one at Bovington as well, near the Centurion 'factory'. And, of course, the one in the Mark V** that you can walk around.
Harry Ricardo was tasked with making a more powerful engine that didn't take up any more fighting room in the tank. He therefore worked in the only plane available to him, ie. height, and eventually got it up from 110hp to 150hp by making the stroke longer. A mechanical genius of his time.
In our Mark IV's, I always think that the best approximation of a big blocky engine right in the middle of tank are the batteries !