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Volume 10, Issue 5
1 May 1938
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| May 01 1938

Light‐weight Air Compressors: A Description of an Air Compressor for Aircraft Services, Including Engine Starting

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1938
Aircraft Engineering (1938) 10 (5): 152–153.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb030313

THE light‐weight air compressors of the single‐stage, single or double cylinder type manufactured by The British Thomson‐Houston Co., of Coventry, have rapidly gained favour from their excellent performance and hours of trouble‐free running on civil and Service aeroplanes.

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