Hi Guys,
This is my next winter project - a 60 horsepower, single shaft, gas turbine engine with much historical ancestry and built by the Rover Car Company around 1967.
This is the same type of engine that was used in Rover’s “JET 1” gas turbine powered car which was road tested at the Silverstone race track in 1950.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_2516000/2516271.stm There were many variants of this engine built and at the peak of it’s production Rover were reported to be making 2.5 units per week.
This particular model was removed from a Vulcan Bomber where it was used as the electrical Auxiliary Power Unit and compressor for starting the main engines.
As you can see, it is in a sorry state at the moment and it is going to need a lot of TLC before I get a tune out of it – it will never fly but one day it will run again. I don’t think that the 208 Volts, 3 phase, 400 Hz will be of much use to me but the sound of that turbine will be well worth the effort.
(Please ignore all the toot in my shed, that’s what shed’s are for
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Tweakie.
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