Aussie Enginuity ?

[flatchat(Chris)]

See if you can get your minds around this SCT BROCHURE

 

[Jac Mac]

See if you can get your minds around this SCT BROCHURE

Aussie Enginuity????????????????????????????

If I remember correctly Mr Mayne was from Christchurch, New Zealand, A couple of TV Doco's were made over here on the motor & the story behind its inventor.

Jac Mac

 

[Russ Noble]

Flatchat,this one's old news from some years ago. Popular mythology has it that the motor never actually worked but Ricky Mayne did quite nicely out of it never the less. Before this he was a trailer manufacturer in Christchurch and is reputed to have left these fair shores rather rapidly under something of a cloud.

Jac Mac, we'll let the Aussies have this one, eh!

Cheers

 

[Lynn Larsen]

I though there were some working models??? I remember these quite well. The only part that seemed a little shaky to me was the slot interface between the piston assemblies and the ?crankshaft? Seemed like an area for a lot of mechanical loss. But the very low frontal area of the design made it very attractive for aircraft use. Don't recall ever seening one in any kind of aircraft though. (I guess that does say something.)

Regards,
Lynn

 

[Lynn Larsen]

RE previous post: Never mind.

Hasty view of diagram led to wrongful identification. I was thinking of the engine that had double headed pistons (one's power stroke is the other's compresion stroke) which moved parallel to a central shaft.

Sorry,
Lynn

 

[Jac Mac]

RE previous post: Never mind.

Hasty view of diagram led to wrongful identification. I was thinking of the engine that had double headed pistons (one's power stroke is the other's compresion stroke) which moved parallel to a central shaft.

Sorry,
Lynn

Dyna Cam.

Jac Mac