Russian Liberty Engines

worldcrusier · 21 November 2004, 05:07 PM

The russians built Liberty engines on license and off for many years. Like the US using 220 continentals in tanks, they used them extensively in their light tanks. The pictures available look like the aircraft engine with little modification. These were used clear up into the thirties. Anyone have any connections in Russia or other eastern Europe countries that can go a lookin' for some??

franzkait · 24 November 2004, 08:07 PM

I have the connection to eastern europe,but I need the name from this tanks. I can not ask for a tank with an aircraft engine.

CodyPaul · 25 November 2004, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by franzkait

I have the connection to eastern europe,but I need the name from this tanks. I can not ask for a tank with an aircraft engine.

Sure you can. Just put in Russian Tanks with Liberty engines or something similar to that. I came up with several hits including http://www.battlefield.ru/bt2.html

I am very poor at reading and writing Russian but you could also try Двигатели Самолета Вольности or Двигатели Самолета M-5

(The M-5 was an engine built in Russia based on the Liberty engine)

What he is looking for are the engines themeselves though.

franzkait · 25 November 2004, 03:34 AM

to read russian is not the problem. The engine name is m5, what is the tank name ?

worldcrusier · 25 November 2004, 10:13 AM

They were the early BT series tanks. BT-2 and a few others, I have no idea how the russians would have these engines described. Here in the US we would just go looking for an M-5 engine from a tank. Maybe in Russia one needs to go looking for the type of tank first. I have no idea.

franzkait · 25 November 2004, 04:26 PM

so, I can ask for a BT-2. What jear ? You must anderstand that I will ask people with no knolige about tanks.

worldcrusier · 25 November 2004, 05:15 PM

They were built in the early 1930's. All the BT-2's had the M-5 engine. The year of production does not matter. I assume that the government would have built a lot of spare engines as replacements. Maybe ask for V-12 tank engines from the early 1930's??

By the way, If you find several of these at reasonable prices I think that you will become a very popular person.

franzkait · 25 November 2004, 05:32 PM

do you think the crankshaft is the same ( for the prop hub )? who likes to have this kind engine, and for what aircraft ?

worldcrusier · 26 November 2004, 01:36 PM

Fortunately, I can build a hub to match almost any conventional shaft. I can only assume that your area of interest is confined to German aircrast since the liberty engine was used on many British and American aircraft at the end of the war and used extensively on aircraft in the early and mid 1920's and still in production in the 30's to power the Loerning seaplanes.