The Willans engine or central valve engine was a high-speed stationary steam engine used mainly for electricity generation around the start of the 20th...

High-speed engines did develop a reputation for profligacy. For larger engines the fuel cost savings were worthwhile and compound designs such as the Willans engine...

Willans may mean: Herbert Geoffrey Willans, (4 February 1911 – 6 August 1958), an English author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with...

As a rule of thumb ihp is 2.6 times nhp, in a compound engine. Compound turbine Willans engine van Riemsdijk, John (1970), "The Compound locomotive, Parts...

grouping but Willans & Robinson retained its identity and some independent shareholders until 1935 when it was liquidated. In the 21st century Willans & Robinson's...

partner with Mark Robinson in the firm Willans & Robinson. Willans is remembered for his development of the 'Willans line', which represents the relationship...

best-known examples of the steeple engine was the Willans engine. These were double- or triple-expansion compound engines, with the unusual features of single-acting...

140-bhp three-cylinder Willans engine steam generating set. This was retired in 1957 and placed on display at the original Willans factory in Rugby. In...

Rupertharris.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014. "Willans and Robinson". Gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2014. "Willans Engine". Gracesguide.co.uk. 13 September...

Newcastle Publisher(s) Focus Home Interactive Director(s) Andrew Willans Engine Unreal Engine 4 Platform(s) Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox...

four Willans-Goolden generating sets, two at 45 kilowatts (kW) and two at 120 kW, provided with steam by three Lancashire boilers. Another two Willans engines...

46 boilers. In the engine room there were ten British Thomson-Houston alternators directly coupled to three-crank Willans engines, eight Brush alternators...

included the Admiralty's fast anti-torpedo boats powered by the noiseless Willans engine, and the yawl Rob Roy (one of the first vessels used in solo adventuring)...

cylinders, but any more is exceptional. Kyrle Willans, son of Peter W. Willans inventor of the Willans engine, was also the uncle of L.T.C. Rolt. See LMS...

products included cars, steam locomotives and a range of internal combustion engines, and later gas turbines. It is now a subsidiary of Siemens. Proctor & Burton...

Corporation, and signed a new supplier deal with safety harness supplier Willans before the Spanish Grand Prix. Only for the Spanish Grand Prix, Sony Pictures...

Engineering Heritage Award exhibit arrived. A 1901, 140 bhp three cylinder Willans engine generating set had been used until 1957 at the Maples furniture shop...

Ziff-Davis. p. 58. Claude, Willan (25 July 2005). "Outlook: Borf's Meaning for a Generation". The Washington Post. Claude, Willan (24 July 2005). "We're All...

original Temple Back power station was rated at 1,972 kW and comprised Willans engines coupled directly to Siemens alternators. By 1923 the plant at Temple...

board of directors of Willans & Robinson engineers. He was appointed lead engineer and steam engine designer in 1892 after Mr. Willans died. Later he designed...

nine triple expansion Willans-Robinson engines coupled to Kapp dynamos delivering 680 Amps at 112–130 Volts, two Willans engines driving a pair of dynamos...

Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2023. Willans, Andrew (February 4, 2015). "Game Design Deep Dive: The plant-growing mechanics...

turbines and condensing plant, Fullagar and Diesel engines and (from Preston) water turbine plant Willans & Robinson Bradford: small motors and control gear...

building cars and motorcycles. He took an apprenticeship with engine manufacturers Willans & Robinson of Rugby, after which he worked as a draughtsman for...

was commissioned in November 1896. The electricity plant comprised Willans engines coupled directly to Goolden dynamos. The Company charged 7d. and 4d...

Wilcox boilers providing steam at 140 psi (9.6 bar) to four compound Willans engines coupled to two 84 kW and two 50 kW Edison-Hopkinson dynamos. These...

300 hp (220 kW) Willans engines coupled to a Laurence Scott generating machine 1 × Triple expansion Howden engine 1 × 750 kW Willans-Westinghouse turbines...

capacity of 240 kW. The generating equipment comprised steam driven Willans engines coupled directly to Brush direct current dynamos. The supply of electricity...

from a war footing to a peacetime one, which included the takeover of Willans and Robsinson, and the United Electric Car Company, which were completed...

a major industrial centre: Willans and Robinson were the first engineering firm to arrive in 1897, building steam engines to drive electrical generators...