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In the 1950s and 1960s until recently, Cox has produced a line of hobby-oriented models of cars, airplanes, and other vehicles. The most noted are the .049 cubic-inch displacement glow fuel powered models, controlled by line (Control Line) or by radio (Radio Control). AMC Matador .049 engine police car from the TV series Adam-12.
The famous Cox Tee Dee .049 and .051. 1961 Tee Dee 049 (Cat#170 - manufactured Nov 1960 – Jan 1996) The Tee Dee is Cox's most famous engine. This engine was dominant in competition for many years. It was designed by Bill Atwood who had been hired by Cox specifically to produce the Tee Dee line of competition engines.
Orange County, California, U.S. Other names. Roy M. Cox, LM Cox Manufacturing Co. Occupation. Entrepreneur. Known for. Toys, Model airplanes, cars, boats. Leroy Milburn Cox (April 27, 1906 – September 22, 1981) was an American entrepreneur, world famous for his Cox model engines and gas powered toys including model cars, airplanes and boats. [ 1]
Edgar T. Westbury was perhaps best known as a major contributor to the English recreational magazine Model Engineer. He contributed under his own name, and also under the pseudonyms 'Artificer', 'Ned', 'Kinemette' and Exactus. [1][2] Beginning in 1925 until his death in 1970, he made over 1474 authored contributions to Model Engineer under his ...
A model engine is a small internal combustion engine [1] typically used to power a radio-controlled aircraft, radio-controlled car, radio-controlled boat, free flight, control line aircraft, or ground-running tether car model. Because of the square–cube law, the behaviour of many engines does not always scale up or down at the same rate as ...
Kit car. A kit car is an automobile available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then assembles into a functioning car. Usually, many of the major mechanical systems such as the engine and transmission are sourced from donor vehicles or purchased new from other vendors.
Jetex. Jetex 100 - the first Jetex motor. Aeromodeller June 1948. Jetex Tailored Skyray kit. The Jetex motor is a miniature solid-fuel rocket motor produced for use as a powerplant for flying model aircraft. Its production led to a number of imitators and, after its discontinuation, successors of similar type.
A carbureted compression ignition model engine, popularly known as a model diesel engine, is a simple compression ignition engine made for model propulsion, usually model aircraft but also model boats. These are quite similar to the typical glow-plug engine that runs on a mixture of methanol -based fuels with a hot wire filament to provide ...