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The design and development of the motor car engine is examined with particular emphasis on the Ford Cosworth Grand Prix engine.
The design and development of the motor car engine is examined with particular emphasis on the Ford Cosworth Grand Prix engine.
| Module code and title: | T231, Introduction to engineering mechanics |
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| Item code: | T231; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 01-06-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:31 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Crilly |
| Contributors: | Keith Duckworth; Barry Shorthouse |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Design; Design; Development; Evolution; Ford Cosworth Grand Prix Engine; Grand Prix Specials; Internal combustion engine; Motor car; National Motor Museum, Beaulieu; Twin cylinder |
| Footage description: | Barry Shorthouse, in an open Benz, drives up to the camera outside the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. He gets out and introduces the programme. Shorthouse describes some of the forces which operate inside a reciprocating internal combustion engine. He holds a piston from a Benz while he talks. Shorthouse, inside the Museum, looks at the engine of an 1896 Wolseley. He explains, with the aid of a cut-away diagram, how the engine works. Shorthouse walks around the Museum looking at examples of very early cars. He talks about the development of these cars and their engines. Shorthouse uses a diagram of a Benz engine to explain, in some detail, how it works. Shorthouse looks at some cars in the Museum which represent the development of racing cars from the Benz to the Lotus Cosworth powered Grand Prix car of 1974. Shorthouse looks at displacement, velocity, acceleration diagrams for three engines - the 1896 Wolseley, the Benz and the Ford Cosworth. These illustrate the magnitude of the forces acting in a modern, high powered racing engine. Keith Duckworth, designer of the Cosworth engine, talks about the extremely high stress concentrations and forces which had to be dealt with in this engine. He concentrates particularly on the camshaft design problem. Keith Duckworth sums up the programme with a discussion of future development of racing engines. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71495 |
| Production number: | 00525_5109 |
| Videofinder number: | 2225 |
| Available to public: | no |
