14 Cyl Sleeve valve radial gear box

[GailInNM]

With all the interest in cutting gears this might interest some of you.
Inside the timing gear case ona 14 cylinder sleeve valve radial.
It was posted on the Radial & Rotary engines Yahoo group.
Gail in NM

 

[Lakc]

I saw that Gail, and it really does look like a clockmaker took too much LSD. :

 

[krv3000]

HI I think he had more than LSD

 

[mu38&Bg#]

There are 14 cranks to drive 14 sleeves in the Hercules. The Centaurus would have had 18. I've studied as much as I could find about Bristol engines.

There are a few photos of a good looking model Hercules here, photos 14-22. It looks as though the model has never been finished.

http://www.modelenginenews.org/gallery/roberts/index.html#bio