Taft-Peirce (Victor Lougheed) V-8 Engine
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company (Victor Lougheed)
- Designer
- Victor Lougheed
- Physical Description
- Two reproduction cylinders are displayed next to the engine.
- Type: Reciprocating, V-8, 2-stroke cycle, air-cooled
- Power: 45 kW (60 hp) at 3,500 rpm estimated (engine never ran)
- Displacement: 2.3 liters (140 cu in.)
- Bore and Stroke: 76.2 mm (3 in.) x 63.5 mm (2.5 in.)
- Weight: 37 kg (81 lb)
- Summary
- This engine was designed by Victor Lougheed, elder brother to Allan and Malcolm Lougheed, founders of the Lockheed Aircraft Company, and manufactured in 1911 by the Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was made almost entirely of Krupp chrome nickel steel at the contemporary high cost of $15,000, with the crankcase and cylinders turned from solid billets weighing approximately 908 kg (2,000 lb.)
- Fuel and lubrication were forced into the cylinders through bypasses in the sides of the cylinders and pistons. Multiple poppet valves, with six in the head of each power-producing cylinder, provided for excellent and rapid scavenging of combustion gases. The eight air pumps, projecting from the lower part of the crankcase, maintained in the crankcase at all times a compression of air which was expelled through the cylinders on the exhaust stroke, and assisted in keeping the cylinders cool.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frederick S. Blackall, Jr., President and Treasurer, Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Company
- 1911
- Inventory Number
- A19600151000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PROPULSION-Reciprocating & Rotary
- Dimensions
- Unknown
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19600151000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv961eb5d38-4f70-450d-9017-1b2ae315c8d4
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