The New Engine Company (abbreviated to N.E.C) was an early British manufacturer of aero-engines.

History edit

The New Engine Company produced a series of aero engines which were unusual in being two-stroke designs, with the refinement that a Roots blower was used to first purge each cylinder of exhaust gases and then to introduce a mixture of air and petrol. All were liquid cooled.

Engines edit

20 hp 2-cylinder edit

Exhibited at the 1910 Aero Show at Olympia in London. Bore 3516 in, stroke 414in, eight 100 lb (45 kg) nn[1]

25 hp four-cylinder inline edit

Exhibited at the 1910 Aero Show at Olympia in London. Used in the Lane monoplane, Nicholson monoplane and Petre monoplane. exhibited at Olympia in 1910 Table of Aeroplanes at Olympia26 March 1910 235

40 hp edit

4-cylinder inline two-stroke, bore 3 in. stroke 4 in. cast iron cylinders and pistons [2]

60 hp 6-cyl edit

Used in the Lane 2-seater monoplane exhibited at Olympia in 1910

50 hp V4 edit

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%201054.html?search=N.E.C 24 December 1910 bare and stroke of the cylinders are 31116. by 412 in. (93.5 mm. by 114 mm.),

Fitted to Alec Ogilvie's Wright Baby [1]

100 hp 6-cylinder inline edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Engines". Flight: 191. 12 March 1910.
  2. ^ "The 40-H.P. N.E.C." Flight: 23. 8 January 1910.