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THE KNIFE AND FORK MAN – THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLES BENJAMIN REDRUP

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THE KNIFE AND FORK MAN – THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLES BENJAMIN REDRUP
WRITTEN BY BILL FAIRNEY

Charles Benjamin Redrup, the engineer and inventor, was born in Newport, South Wales in 1878. Raised in Barry, he designed and manufactured the unusual “Barry” motor cycle and went on to design a prodigious range of engines for First World War aircraft, motor cycles, cars, boats and buses. He carried out most of his development work in a simply-equipped home workshop, and often said that he made most of his engines with little more than ‘a knife and a fork’.  He was the inventor of the unique “Wobble-Plate” axial engines which powered a motor launch and a Crossley Motors motor car in the 1920s. A variant of the engine flew in a Simmonds Spartan aircraft in 1929. Several variants of his axial engines powered vehicles of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company in the 1930s. During the Second World War he worked on top-secret armaments projects for the Lancaster and other aircraft. After the war he designed more motor-cycle engines and a large 2.000 horse-power axial aero engine. His name appears fleetingly in many reference works but no full description of his extensive and innovative work has been previously written.

CONTENTS :
1. The early years
2. The rotary
3. Radial and axial
4. Reactionless and radial
5. The Hart saga
6. Motor-cycles and marine
7. Avro and Alpha
8. To Helvellyn and back
9. Fired and the fury
10. Fury and flight
11. On the road again
12. Avro-Again !
13. War work
14. Bouncers and bounders
15. Final thoughts
Appendices :
I. Known Redrup engine designs
II. Known surviving Redrup engines

The book has been used, but it is in as new condition, hard cover, 319 pages, English text.

ISBN : 978 0 9554455 0 7

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