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Rover/Lucas S2, a twin shaft engine, was developed from the famous Rover P6 gas turbine, the engine that almost made it as the world's first automotive gas turbine. The engine was used as a compressor unit for the Nimrod aircraft and also as an Auxiliary Power Unit in the HS748 aircraft. | Rover/Lucas S2, a twin shaft engine, was developed from the famous Rover P6 gas turbine, the engine that almost made it as the world's first automotive gas turbine. The engine was later used as a compressor unit for the Nimrod aircraft and also as an Auxiliary Power Unit in the HS748 aircraft. | ||
1962 Rover T4 gas turbine car was shown at the New York Motor Show. | |||
1963 The Rover B.R.M. Gas Turbine Car, a joint product of [[Rover]] and the [[Rubery, Owen and Co|Owen Organisation]], was shown at the [[1963 Motor Show]]. The car was the first gas-turbine car to complete the Le Mans 24 hour race. | 1963 The Rover B.R.M. Gas Turbine Car, a joint product of [[Rover]] and the [[Rubery, Owen and Co|Owen Organisation]], was shown at the [[1963 Motor Show]]. The car was the first gas-turbine car to complete the Le Mans 24 hour race. | ||
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1950 Rover built the first gas-turbine powered car
Rover/Lucas S2, a twin shaft engine, was developed from the famous Rover P6 gas turbine, the engine that almost made it as the world's first automotive gas turbine. The engine was later used as a compressor unit for the Nimrod aircraft and also as an Auxiliary Power Unit in the HS748 aircraft.
1962 Rover T4 gas turbine car was shown at the New York Motor Show.
1963 The Rover B.R.M. Gas Turbine Car, a joint product of Rover and the Owen Organisation, was shown at the 1963 Motor Show. The car was the first gas-turbine car to complete the Le Mans 24 hour race.
1965 A regenerative heat exchanger was fitted to the Rover B.R.M car (with Rover 2S/150/R engine) entered in the Le Mans 24 hour race[1]
A scaled version of the S2 power plant, the Rover 2S75, was the basis of Rotax's CT2023 unit and Lucas's CR201 unit.
The gas generator section of this engines formed the basis of the Rover TJ125 minijet engine
1968 Launch of the T.J.125 turbo-jet engine [2]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer 1965/0423
- ↑ The Engineer of 9th February 1968 p251
- Rover Lucas S2 [1]