ENGINES OF THE R33.
BRiIISH BEAT THE GERMAN. RESULT OF 19-HOUR TEST. LONDON. Oct. S. If, is stated that a number of technical advisers, who favoured German Maybach engines as the most reliable power units for airships, induced the Air Ministry to replace the British Sunbeam engine at the rear of the engine room on the dirigible ESS, prior to Monday's flight, with & Maybach taken from the Zeppelin Z77. The technicians, it is asserted, were particularly anxious that 1133 should not be driven, helpless, overseas owing to engine trouble, and contended that, in the event of the failure of the three British Sunbeam engines fitted in the forward cars, the "reliable German engine, which was installed m the most effective position in the rear compartment, was certain to bring the airship home. Events showed that the only mechanical failure during the flight was in the Maybach's reduction gearing, fhe three &m----beams did not falter throughout tho 19 hours' test, and it is practically certain that all-British engines will be ftted in the Empire airships now being desigc.edu
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 11
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