Lawrance Aero Engine Company
| Lawrance Aero Engine Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private company |
| founding | 1917 |
| resolution | 1923 |
| Reason for dissolution | bought by Wright Aeronautical |
| Seat | |
| management | Charles Lawrance |
| Branch | Aircraft engines |
The Lawrance Aero Engine Company was an American manufacturer of aircraft engines . Founded by engine pioneer Charles Lanier Lawrance , the company built one of the first successful, air-cooled radial engines . Only five years after it was founded, it was bought by Wright Aeronautical , which, as a much larger company, was far better able to produce the radial engines developed by Lawrance in large numbers.
history
The Lawrance Aero Engine Company was founded in 1917. After the end of the First World War , the engineers at Lawrance worked to develop a nine-cylinder star engine from their Y-engine L-1 . From these efforts, the Lawrance J-1 emerged with an output of 200 hp (147 kW ). It was the best American air-cooled engine at the time and passed its fifty-hour test in 1922.
The United States Navy was very interested in air-cooled radial engines at the time, but doubted that Lawrance could produce a sufficient number of engines. So the Navy got Wright Aeronautical to buy up the Lawrance Aero Engine Company and build the J-1 engine itself. In May 1923, Wright bought Lawrance and developed the J -5 , J-6 and R-795 engines from the J-1 .
Products
- Lawrance A-3
- Lawrance C-2
- Lawrance J-1
- Lawrance J-2
- Lawrance L-1
- Lawrance L-2
- Lawrance L-3
- Lawrance L-4
- Lawrance L-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bill Gunston: World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines . 5th edition. Sutton Publishing Limited, Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England 2006, ISBN 0-7509-4479-X , p. 125 (English).
- ↑ Michael John Taylor Haddrick: Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I . Random House Group Ltd, London 2001, ISBN 1-85170-347-0 , pp. 290 (English).
- ^ Bill Gunston: World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines . 5th edition. Sutton Publishing Limited, Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England 2006, ISBN 0-7509-4479-X , p. 125,244 (English).