Talk:Heron cylinder head
Latest comment: 8 years ago by 86.162.138.203 in topic Air cooled radials
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Don't forget the lovely Alfasud, which also had Heron type heads!
Air cooled radials edit
A recent addition uses this source [1] to claim that the Heron head was invented by Gibson & Heron at the RAE in 1918. Now Heron is an uncommon name. I'd expect there to be some involvement, whether now or later. However I'm unconvinced that this Gibson-Heron head is at all related to the Heron head.
The Gibson-Heron head is a design for sealing the head of an air-cooled radial engine, so as to give good thermal transfer and thus avoid valve overheating.
The Heron head, as used by Jaguar, is a design for combustion chambers.
Is there really any overlap? Andy Dingley (talk) 10:36, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
- I too am unaware that the Gibson-Heron head is the same as a Heron head. Arrivisto (talk) 10:33, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
- I've invoked WP:BOLD and deleted the Gibson-Heron bit. 86.162.138.203 (talk) 13:15, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- See; Samuel Dalziel Heron