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The engines were fitted with 11:1 pistons, a lightened crankshaft, the head was gas-flowed and breathed though three 1 3/16" Amal GP carburettors. [7] [8] Fontana 250 mm (9.8 in) double-sided front drum brakes were fitted. The engine had sheet metal shrouds fitted to guide the air within the fairing over the engine. [6]
The engine had less vibration than the existing 360° twins. The Rocket 3/Trident was part of Triumph's plan to extend the model range beyond their 650 cc parallel twins . It was the last major motorcycle developed by Triumph at Meriden, West Midlands , created to meet the demands of the US market.
The class was the mainstay of the LB&SCR outer suburban services for twenty years, until gradually replaced by R. J. Billinton's D3 class 0-4-4 tank engines in the mid-1890s. Thereafter they were used on a variety of secondary passenger, and occasionally freight services throughout the railway.
However, the local engine crews preferred to use the older 0-6-2 T E3 tank engines, so No. 105 returned to Battersea. [5] In 1921, with the LB&SCR increasing their wages, Billinton was instructed to carry out a series of time-and-motion studies covering likely economies in the railway department. [5]
The LB&SCR K class were powerful 2-6-0 mixed traffic locomotives designed by L. B. Billinton for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) in 1913. They appeared shortly before the First World War and the first ten examples of the class did prodigious work during that conflict on munitions, supply and troop trains.
The Twin Cylinder Engine – This engine was introduced in 1977 as a means of competing with Briggs & Stratton's rivals, particularly Japanese firms like Honda who were cutting into traditional Briggs & Stratton markets by producing lawn mower engines (and later, complete lawn mowers). These first models were rated 16 hp (11.9 kW) and displaced ...
The original Triumph Bonneville was a 650 cc parallel-twin motorcycle manufactured by Triumph Engineering and later by Norton Villiers Triumph between 1959 and 1974. It was based on the company's Triumph Tiger T110 and was fitted with the Tiger's optional twin 1 3/16 in Amal monobloc carburettors as standard, along with that model's high-performance inlet camshaft.
A crossflow T-head sidevalve engine The usual L-head arrangement Pop-up pistons may be used to increase compression ratio Flathead with Ricardo's turbulent head. A flathead engine, also known as a sidevalve engine [1] [2] or valve-in-block engine, is an internal combustion engine with its poppet valves contained within the engine block, instead of in the cylinder head, as in an overhead valve ...