@ Bиктор
Ясно, учить еще немецкий я, пожалуй, не буду) Или точно не сейчас.
В общем, интересная история описана на страницах данного сайта.
Текст вот:
"There was no inlet manifold or carburettor, so I got an Amal and made an inlet manifold, assembled the whole contraption and put it on the dyno. It happened that Dan Gurney turned up on the day we were due to start it up, and watched from outside the dyno. room, behind the bullet-proof glass. Anyway, this Bradshaw engine started up - the guy had said that it was perfectly balanced and would rev to umpteen thousand RPM - the only problem was that in the gear casing, at the back of the engine, he had made all the gears himself, with a file or something! The pitch of the teeth were all irregular and I had to do an incredible amount of lapping - the quality of build was awful.
"Anyway it did start and run, and I fiddled about with the carburettor and sorted out a few things. Dan Gurney was outside and encouraging us to give it the berries. While it was idling at a few hundred RPM a cloud of smoke gradually built up in the dyno. room. Eventually we gave it some more RPM, only about 2,500, when suddenly there was a mighty BANG! and the whole of the glass window disappeared in a mess of oil and metal. Slowly the murk cleared and all we could see through the smoke were the feet of the gearcase, and the toroidal chamber, with bits of cast iron and aluminium all over the place.
"It all got collected up, put back in the box and sent back to Mr Bradshaw. I don't think his concept was properly evaluated at all....."
It is not clear from this description of a rather casual approach to engine testing what failed- perhaps the home-made gearwheels were not up to the job. At any rate, it is clear that it did run.
If Mr Bradshaw was paying to have his engine tested, I should think he was pretty angry.
В вкратце история такая: они решили испытать двигатель, он у них завелся, проработал, но потом взорвался. Потом двигатель отправили разработчику. А испытатели высказывают мысль о том, что шестерни были не к месту.
Двигатель испытывали по этой схеме:
