A 60 horse-power engine was also made, having four vertical cylinders,
each with a diameter of 5.5 inches and stroke of 5.75 inches,
developing its rated power at 1,100 revolutions per minute. By
accelerating up to 1,200 revolutions per minute 70 brake horse-power
could be obtained, and a maximum of 80 brake horse-power was actually
attained with the type. The flywheel, fitted as with the original 35
horse-power engine, weighed 37 lbs.; with this and with the ignition
system the total weight of the engine was only 250 lbs., or 4.2 lbs.
per horse-power at the normal rating. In this design, however, low
weight in relation to power was not the ruling factor, for Green gave
more attention to reliability and economy of fuel consumption, which
latter was approximately 0.6 pint of petrol per brake horse-power per
hour. Both the oil for lubricating the bearings and the water for
cooling the cylinders were circulated by pumps, and all parts of the
valve gear, etc., were completely enclosed for protection from dust.
[Illustration: Green Vertical Engine 35 b. h. p.]
A later development of the Green engine was a six-cylindered vertical,
cylinder dimensions being 5.5 inch diameter by 6 inch stroke,
developing 120 brake horse-power when running at 1,250 revolutions
per minute. The total weight of the engine with ignition system was
440 lbs., or 3.66 lbs. per horse-power. One of these engines was used
on the machine which, in 1909, won the prize of £ 1,000 for the first
circular mile flight, and it may be noted, too, that S. F. Cody, making
the circuit of England in 1911, used a four-cylinder Green engine.
Again, it was a Green engine that in 1914 won the £5,000 prize offered
for the best aero engine in the Naval and Military aeroplane engine
competition.
Manufacture of the Green engines, in the period of the War, had
standardised to the production of three types. Two of these were
six-cylinder models, giving respectively 100 and 150 brake horse-power,
and the third was a twelve-cylindered model rated at 275 brake
horse-power.
In 1910 J. S. Critchley compiled a list showing the types of engine
then being manufactured; twenty-two out of a total of seventy-six were
of the four-cylindered vertical type, and in addition to these there
were two six-cylindered verticals. The sizes of the four-cylinder types
ranged from 26 up to 118 brake horse-power; fourteen of them developed
less than 50 horse-power, and only two developed over 100 horse-power.
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