Comments on: Radial Engine Motorcycles – Redrup Radial http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/10/25/radial-engine-motorcycles-redrup-radial/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Prof. William Fairney http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/10/25/radial-engine-motorcycles-redrup-radial/#comment-50641 Prof. William Fairney Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:35:17 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1229#comment-50641 What a co-incidence! My biography of Charles Benjamin Redrup has just been published (see website) and covers the full range of motorcycle engines which he designed, from 1901 to 1948. He built rotary, double-rotary, radial and axial engines. He also designed engines for 1st World War aircraft, for Avros in 1926-28, a boat in 1926, an axial engine for a Simmonds Spartan aircraft in 1929, and a series of axial engines for Bristol buses in the 1930s. He worked on Lancaster gun-turret hydraulics for Avro again during the 2nd World War and built radial and axial engines for mororcycles between 1946 and 1948. He designed axial aero engines of 1,000hp and 2,000hp in the 1950s. The red motorcycle is in the Sammy Miller museum. If anyone has any more information on Redrup I'd appreciate it, for the second edition of the book! What a co-incidence! My biography of Charles Benjamin Redrup has just been published (see website) and covers the full range of motorcycle engines which he designed, from 1901 to 1948. He built rotary, double-rotary, radial and axial engines.
He also designed engines for 1st World War aircraft, for Avros in 1926-28, a boat in 1926, an axial engine for a Simmonds Spartan aircraft in 1929, and a series of axial engines for Bristol buses in the 1930s. He worked on Lancaster gun-turret hydraulics for Avro again during the 2nd World War and built radial and axial engines for mororcycles between 1946 and 1948. He designed axial aero engines of 1,000hp and 2,000hp in the 1950s. The red motorcycle is in the Sammy Miller museum.
If anyone has any more information on Redrup I’d appreciate it, for the second edition of the book!

]]> By: coho http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/10/25/radial-engine-motorcycles-redrup-radial/#comment-47485 coho Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:02:28 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1229#comment-47485 The swirly exhaust pipes on the Killinger are ridiculously cool. The swirly exhaust pipes on the Killinger are ridiculously cool.

]]> By: hoyt http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/10/25/radial-engine-motorcycles-redrup-radial/#comment-47474 hoyt Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:39:55 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1229#comment-47474 vertical crankshaft -- interesting. Didn't Moto Guzzi have a prototype where there was a 3rd cylinder in between the 90 degree cylinders? vertical crankshaft — interesting.

Didn’t Moto Guzzi have a prototype where there was a 3rd cylinder in between the 90 degree cylinders?

]]> By: kneeslider http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/10/25/radial-engine-motorcycles-redrup-radial/#comment-47468 kneeslider Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:18:18 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1229#comment-47468 That is pretty cool. Pretty swoopy bodywork, too. That is pretty cool. Pretty swoopy bodywork, too.

]]> By: aaron http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/10/25/radial-engine-motorcycles-redrup-radial/#comment-47466 aaron Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:03:42 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=1229#comment-47466 I didn't know you were after more radials or I would have brought up the killinger! 3cyl 2-stroke, mounted in the front wheel. wikipedia has an article without pics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killinger_and_Freund_Motorcycle and links to a german site with pics - http://www.schouwer-online.de/technik/killinger.htm cool, huh? I didn’t know you were after more radials or I would have brought up the killinger! 3cyl 2-stroke, mounted in the front wheel.

wikipedia has an article without pics –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killinger_and_Freund_Motorcycle

and links to a german site with pics -
http://www.schouwer-online.de/technik/killinger.htm

cool, huh?

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