Wanted: Austro-Daimler 160hp drawings

mossie · 3 July 2009, 04:26 AM

I'm after any drawings of this engine, I've not been able to find any in my sources, nor the web.

I have 220hp drawings from RAF report, H616 of July 1918.

Aquilius · 3 July 2009, 07:33 AM

Have you seen this thread ?

Daimler 160 hp engine

Aquilus

mossie · 3 July 2009, 07:54 AM

Thanks for that, I also found some information, no drawings though at Porsche

stevedrew · 3 July 2009, 08:05 AM

Mossie,

"Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War 1" has a five page spread on the 200hp Austro-Daimler, but no mention of the 160hp version.

mossie · 3 July 2009, 08:06 AM

The 160hp unit seems a missed engine, yet it was used a lot.

Karloff · 3 July 2009, 01:15 PM

That engine is a ghost as far as drawings go. I've looked into finding some, but always ran into the 185hp version. Comparing both, I settled with the assumption that the 185hp probably had a higher compression ratio to the 160 but otherwise looked the same as the 185 externally.

Of course, I'd be happy if proven wrong with sufficient documents about the 160 as I am building my Hansa-Brandenburg C.I featuring the same engine.

As for the 185hp AD6, I have a few drawings and, I dare say, excellent pictures I took of one of the few survivors (originally fitted in a Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, KD fighter, also known as the starstrutter or deathtrap

) with serial AD 7139.

I simply gave up looking for the 160 on the web and will leave that for when I visit the Kriegsarchiv in Vienna.

Meanwhile, have a look to my HB C.I build-thread with some details and drawings of the 160/185hp. There I've labelled it as a 160, though, I am not certain. Again, maybe some pros know more and would be kind enough to share.

Karl