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Clerget 16X


FieldValue
name16X
engine_typeX-type water-cooled piston engine
manufacturerClerget-Blin
national_originFrance
first_run1918

The Clerget 16X was an experimental French 16-cylinder X engine built in about 1918.

Design

Clerget-Blin are best known for their well engineered rotary engines produced from 1911 to the end of World War I in 1918, the first of their type to have independently operated inlet and exhaust valves. The experimental 16X was a departure from all of these; despite contemporary descriptions as a radial engine, it was in more modern terms an X-type, four stroke water-cooled petrol engine, essentially two 90° V-8 cylinder engines, one inverted, coupled to a common output shaft.

Specifications

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References

Bibliography

References

  1. Taylor, 2001, p.279
  2. Gunston, 1989, p.41
  3. Lumsden, 1994, p.133
  4. Taylor, 2001, p.202-3
  5. Grey, 1969, pp.1b-145b
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