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Aero Engine Badge - Pratt & Whitney, circa 1942
Pratt & Whitney aeroplane engine insignia. Painted dark and light blue, dark brown and white on metal. Shows a bald eagle with spread wings marked 'Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Dependable E ...
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Motor Scooter Engine - Lambretta LD, circa 1955
Along with the Vespa, the Lambretta motor scooter built in Italy became a popular and stylish form of transport in the 1950s and 1960s. The Innocetti company in Milan began production o ...
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Motor Scooter Engine - Ducati Piuma, Moped, Italy, 1960
This type of engine was fitted to the Ducati 48 Piuma moped built bt Ducati Meccanica S.p.A in Bologna, Italy. The Piuma differed from a motor scooter in that it retained pedals and a m ...
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Motor Car Replica - Ford Quadricycle, 1896
This replica of Henry Ford's first car was built in 1963 by Tom Myers for the Ford Motor Company of Australia. Ford commissioned the Quadricycle replica to mark the centenary of Henry F ...
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Motor Cycle - BSA Model K, 1916
BSA Model K three-speed belt-drive motorcycle with vertical single-cylinder side-valve engine, manufacture in 1916. The Victoria agent for BSA motor cycles was Milledge Bros from 1912 t ...
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Motor Cycle Engine - Yamaha, Two-Stroke, Model L2G, 1970-1975
Model L2G, two-stroke, 100 cc single cylinder engine includes a four-speed gearbox, kick starter and multi-disc clutch unit. It has been sectioned for display and mounted on a base plat ...
From: Iwata, Japan Images: 1 -
Motor Cycle - Batavus Bilonet G50 'Super Sport', circa 1960
This stylish maroon and white Batavus 'Super Sport' is a lightweight machine typical of the type of motor cycle developed by several European manufacturers after the Second World War. S ...
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Motor Cycle - BMW R75/5, Victoria Police, 1972
The R75/5 was the largest of three models in a new range of BMW high-performance sports bikes introduced in 1969. The success of these models led to a doubling of sales of BMW motor cyc ...
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Aero Engine Model - Wright Cyclone R-1820-C9HE, 1960
Engine History The Wright Cyclone series of nine cylinder, air cooled radial aero engines were developed continuously between the 1920's and 1940s by the Wright Aeronautical Corporatio ...
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Motor Car - Ilinga AF2, 1975
Designed around a modified Rover 4.4 litre V8 engine fitted to the Leyland P76, the Ilinga was designed by British-born racing car driver and engineer Tony Farrell in partnership with M ...
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Engine - Gearbox & Differential Assembly, Hillman Imp, 1965
Manufacture of the Hillman Imp began at the Hillman Motor Car Company Ltd factory at Linwood, Glasgow in Scotland in 1963, employing many former shipyard workers. Hillman was part of th ...
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Motor Cycle - Harley-Davidson, Single-Cylinder 'Pup', 1930
Made by the Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A, the Model 45 'Pup' was designed to compete with popular medium-sized English motor cycles. The single-cylinder 345.73c ...
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Aero Engine - Lanchester Motors Co. Ltd, RAF 1A, Birmingham, England, 1917
The RAF 1A is a 90 horsepower, V8, air-cooled engine designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough in the United Kingdom. This example was built under licence by the Lanchester ...
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Motor Scooter Engine - Lambretta LD, circa 1955
Along with the Vespa, the Lambretta motor scooter built in Italy became a popular and stylish form of transport in the 1950s and 1960s. The Innocetti company in Milan began production o ...
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Motor Van - Ford, Model T, 'Baker's Van', 1913
This replica Model T baker's van was built from new and old stock parts by workshop staff at the Science Museum of Victoria in the 1970s. It is based on an original 1913 Model T chassis ...
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Aero Engine - Aubrey Lock & Azor Robbins, 1910
This four-cylinder, horizontally-opposed engine is one of the earliest aero engines to be built in Australia. It was designed and built by two young motor mechanics, Azor D. Robbins and ...
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Aero Engine - De Havilland Engine Co. Ltd, Gypsy Major Series II, Tiger Moth, 1939
The Gypsy Major was designed and built by the De Havilland Aircraft Co. as a development of the Airdisco Cirrus four-cylinder, air-cooled aero engine. The Cirrus utilised First World Wa ...
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Engine - Cummins Diesel V8-185, 1970
This 185 horsepower eight-cylinder diesel engine was made in Australia by Cummins Diesel Australia at their Maroondah Highway, Ringwood factory. It has been sectioned for display and wa ...
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Aero Engine - Pratt & Whitney R-1830 -SIC3G, Twin Wasp, DAP Beaufort, 1942-1946
The Museum's US-built R-1830-SIC3G model Twin Wasp engine (serial no. 130) was fitted to Beaufort bomber A9-287 which served with 32 Squadron RAAF flying anti-submarine patrols off the ...
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Aero Engine - General Motors-Holden's Ltd, Gipsy Major Series I, 1941
The Museum's Gipsy Major engine carries the serial no. T.1 as the first Australian-built Gipsy Major engine. After completion it was tested by the Council for Scientific & Industrial Re ...
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Aero Engine - Austro-Daimler Beardmore, circa 1914
The Austro Daimler was one of the first successful in-line, water-cooled aero engines developed in Europe. The design was used by combatant nations on opposing sides during the First Wo ...
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Aero Engine - Alvis Leonides, 500 Series, England, Great Britain, circa 1950
Best known for their range of high quality motor cars, Alvis Limited in Coventry began work on aero engines in 1935 developing the Pelides and Leonides radial engines. The nine-cylinder ...
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Aero Engine - ABC Dragonfly Mark 2, 1918
ABC Motors Ltd was formed in 1912 as the All British Engine Co. Ltd by Ronald Charteris with Granville Bradshaw as the chief designer. The company produced a range of radial air-cooled ...
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Aero Engine - Bristol Hercules XVIII, Bristol/DAP Beaufighter, circa 1944
The Hercules XVIII in the Museum's collection was purchased by the Museum in 1970 without a log book. Its operational use is therefore not known. It was subsequently sectioned for displ ...
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Aero Engine - Anzani 100 Horsepower, circa 1915
This air-cooled, ten-cylinder, 100 horsepower radial engine was made by the British Anzani Engine Co. Ltd of Willesden in London. This firm was a branch of the original French company A ...
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Motor Scooter - Piaggio Vespa Model GL, 1960
Before becoming an Italian style icon in the 1950s thanks to films such as Roman Holiday, the Vespa (Wasp) was a cheap and practical means of transport introduced in ravaged post-war It ...
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Motor Car - Austin Seven, circa 1929
The chassis and engine of this Austin Seven were built by the Austin Motor Company at Longbridge, UK in about 1929. The wood and fabric body is of a non-standard design and the front sh ...
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Aero Engine - Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII, 1920
The Museum's engine is an Eagle VIII purchased from Mr D.M. Wallace of Caulfield, Victoria in 1936. The history of this engine is not known however it is likely to be a spare engine pur ...
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Aero Engine - Rolls-Royce Merlin 46, Supermarine Spitfire Vc, 1942
This Mark 46 Merlin engine (serial no. 91315) was installed in Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc BS181 in July 1942 after manufacture at Derby and shipped to Australia. On 12 November 1942 thi ...
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Ultralight Aircraft - Pterodactyl, 'Ascender II+', 1984
The Pterodactyl was designed in the USA in the 1970s and progressively modified. It was designed in 1977 by Jack McCornack of Monterey, California who improved a powered Manta Fledge II ...
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Motor Cycle Engine - Henderson, Four Cylinder, Model Z, 1919
Henderson four-cylinder engine from a Model Z motor cycle, purchased by the Museum in 1935 from Mr A. Burns of Collins Street, Essendon. It was sectioned for display at a later date.
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Motor Cycle Engine - Moto-Reve, 1914
Moto-Reve was an an important early manufacturer of motor cycles and a range of single and twin-cylinder engines which were fitted to other manufacturers products. For example, the firs ...
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Motor Cycle Engine - Triumph Single-Cylinder, 3.5 h.p, 1911
The Triumph company was one of the most successful of the early British motorcycle manufacturers. The firm was established in 1897 by two Germans, Siegfried Bettmann and Maurice Schulte ...
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Motor Cycle Engine - Indian 'Powerplus', 1916
'Indian' motor cycles were produced by the Hendee Manufacturing Company at Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in what was at one time the largest motorcyle factory in the world. Founded by ...
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Motor Cycle Engine - DKW, Two-Stroke, circa 1955
During the 1920s the German DKW (Dampf Kraft Wagen or 'Steam Powered Car)' firm operated the largest motor cycle factory in the world. It had been formed in 1916 by Jorgen Rasmussen, a ...
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Motor Cycle Engine - Raleigh Single Cylinder, 1926
The Raleigh Cycle Company Ltd was founded in 1888 in Nottingham, UK as a bicycle manufacturer. In common with many such firms it also began to produce motor cycles and engines in the ea ...
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Engine - De Dion Bouton, circa 1900
The firm De Dion, Bouton et Trepardoux was formed in Paris 1883 to produce steam vehicles, especially steam-powered cycles. Count Albert De Dion became interested in internal combustion ...
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