The Beardmore 120 hp was a British six-cylinder,

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aero engine that first ran in 1914, it was built by

William Beardmore and Company William Beardmore and Company was a British engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid-1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. It was founded and ...

as a licensed-built version of the Austro-Daimler 6. The engine featured

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cylinders and mild steel concave

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s. Produced between August 1914 and December 1918, the design powered many

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aircraft types.Gunston 1989, p. 21.

Applications

Airco DH.1 The Airco DH.1 was an early military biplane of typical "Farman" pattern flown by Britain's Royal Flying Corps during World War I. By the time the powerplant for which it was designed was sufficiently plentiful it was obsolete as an operationa ...

Airco DH.3 The Airco DH.3 was a British bomber aircraft of the First World War. The DH.3 was designed in 1916 as a long-range day bomber by Geoffrey de Havilland, chief designer at the Aircraft Manufacturing Company. It was a large biplane with wide-span t ...

* Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3 * Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 *

Bristol T.T.A. The Bristol Type 6 T.T.A was a British two-seat, twin-engine biplane, designed in 1915 as a defence fighter. Two prototypes were built, but the T.T.A. did not go into production. Development The Bristol T.T.A was designed in 1915 to a War Off ...

Cody V The Cody V was a single-engined biplane built by the British-based American aviation pioneer Samuel Franklin Cody in 1912. It was built from the remains of two of Cody's earlier aircraft, and won the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition, ...

* Martinsyde Elephant * Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 * Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.5 *

Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7 __NOTOC__ The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7 was a British two-seat light bomber and reconnaissance biplane designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory and built under contracts by the Coventry Ordnance Works, Austin, Napier and Siddeley-Deasy for the ...

* Vickers F.B.14 * White and Thompson No. 3

Specifications (120 hp)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. * Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

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