From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Train T

French piston aircraft engine series

Field	Value
name	2T, 4T, 6T
engine_type	In line air-cooled inverted piston engine
manufacturer	Établissements E. Train
national_origin	France

The Train 2T, 4T and 6T were low power piston engines for light aircraft, produced in France. They were inverted, air-cooled in-line engines with the same bore and stroke, differing chiefly in the number of cylinders.

Design and development

In the 1930s Train introduced a series of air-cooled, inverted in-line piston engines for light aircraft. The T series all used the same cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, valve trains and ignition system, combined into 2 (2T), 4 (4T), and 6 (6T) cylinder units of the same layout. The number of crankshaft bearings (3, 5 or 7) and throws (2, 4 or 6) naturally depended on the number of cylinders, as did the number of cams (4, 8 or 12) on the underhead camshaft. Each cylinder had a swept volume of 0.5 L, so the displacements were 1 L, 2 L and 3 L and the rated outputs 15 kW, 30 kW and 60 hp respectively. The Train 6D was a variant of the 6T with increased bore of 85 mm.

Operational history

Several International 2-litre Class records were set in 1937 by aircraft powered by the Train 4T. On 7 June 1937 M. Duverene averaged 154.5 km/h over 1000 km and 95 km/h over 1000 km in a single engine Kellner-Béchereau E.1. On 27 December 1937 Mme Lafargue reached an altitude of 4,935 m in a Touya, setting both a class and a women's record.

It also powered aircraft on some notable cross-country flights; on 30 December 1937 M. Lenee flew a Kellner-Béchereau E.1 from Elde to Biarritz, a distance of 1229 km; the same day M. Blazy flew a two-seat SFAN 5 aircraft from Guyancourt to Champniers, Charente, covering 330 km.

Six Train 4Ts were used in the 2 seat, 18 m span Potez-CAMS 160 flying boat, a 1:2.6 scale model of the large Potez-CAMS 161 aircraft.

Variants

From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938 unless noted

;Train 2T :2-cylinders, 80 mm, 1 L, 15 kW

;Train 4T :4-cylinders, 80 mm, 2 L, 30 kW

::Train 4E - 50-55 hp variant of the 4T ;Train 6T :6-cylinders, 80 mm, 3 L, 60 hp ;Train 6C-01 : Powered the Tokyo Imperial University LB-2 ;Train 6D :6-cylinders, 85 mm, 3.4 L, 62 kW ## Applications From *Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938* and www.AviaFrance ### 4-cylinder models - Brochet MB.50 (4T) - Carmier T.10 (4A) - Caudron C.344 (4T) - Chilton D.W.1A (4T) - Druine Aigle 777 (4T) - Duverne-Saran (4T) - Hennion 01 (4A 01) - Kellner-Béchereau E.1 (4T) - Mauboussin Hémiptère (4T) - Morane-Saulnier MS-660 (4E-01) - Nicolas-Claude NC-2 Aquilon (4E-01?) - Payen AP-10 (4T) - Potez-CAMS 160 (4T or 4A-01) - Régnier 12 (4T) - Touya aircraft (4T) - Trébucien Sport (4T) ### 6-cylinder models - Aubert PA-20 Cigale (6T) - Duverne-Saran 01 (6T) - Kellner-Béchereau EC.4 (6T) - Kellner-Béchereau ED.5 (6T) - S.E.C.A.T. S.4 Mouette - SECAT VI La Mouette (6T) - SFAN 5 (6T) - Volland V-10 (6T) ## Specifications (4T) - **Ignition system:** Choice of one or two magnetos with one or two plugs/cylinder |power/weight=0.72 kW/kg (0.44 hp/lb) **Cylinders:** Machined steel barrels with aluminium-bronze heads containing machined valve seat and secured with long bolts to crankcase. ;Pistons: Aluminium alloy. Floating gudgeon pins. Three compression and one scraper ring/cylinder ;Connecting rods:Forged duralumin with split big ends. ;Crankshaft:4-throw steel casting with 5 white metal lined bearings. Front ball race thrust bearing. ;Crankcase:Aluminium casting in top and bottom halves, with capped crankshaft bearings in the lower part. ## References ## References 1. Grey, C.G.. (1972). "Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938". *David & Charles*. 2. Grey, C.G.. (1972). "Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938". 3. (24 August 1936). ["Un nouveaux moteur: le Train 4E-01 de 50/55CV"](http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6555914g/f15). *Les Ailes*. 4. (3 November 1938). ["Que reste-t-il des Avions du 1936?"](http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6554706x/f7). *Les Ailes*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_T) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_T?action=history). ::

1930s-aircraft-piston-engines

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Train T — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report