Harry Varley : A Man Who Made Motoring History

Ian Coomber

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Éditeur : Fonthill

Référence : LN05856

Harry Varley was one of the three-man team that designed the iconic three-litre Bentley and fifty-seven years later, he created a new engine for the same car.

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A remarkable eighty-year adventure spanning the golden age of twentieth-century mechanical and motor-vehicle engineering. Born into an ecclesiastical family, Harry Varley had a burning ambition to be the best engineer he could.

He was one of the three-man team that designed the iconic three-litre Bentley and fifty-seven years later, he created a new engine for the same car. A skilled draughtsman and designer, Varley worked at multiple companies on cars, aircraft and agricultural machinery. He designed the badge that appears on every Vauxhall, a revolutionary internal-combustion-engine piston and was employed on projects at Cubitt, Crossley and Streamline Cars.

On secondment in the Second World War, he helped develop the largest diesel engine made by Perkins Engines, balloon winches and gun mountings, finishing at Rolls-Royce where he retired as chief planning engineer. The design and manufacture of his Varley engine took nine years of grit and determination. Having received reports that it had achieved its design objectives, he died aged ninety-three, his life’s work complete.

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Auteur
Ian Coomber
Éditeur
Fonthill
Format
15 x 21 cm
ISBN
9781781559048
Nombre de pages
192
Langue
Anglais
Etat
Neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide

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