Automobile and Aircraft Engines

Third, revised edition (previously published in multi-volume sets, under the title High-speed Internal Combustion Engines). x, 900pp, plus publisher's adverts at rear; copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams etc, occasional black and white plates and three large fold-out charts. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and motif on front panel, decorated with blind rules. 8vo. . Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and around spine, a few minor marks. Prelims have faint and occasional spotting, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Judge's classic work, in one volume, setting out the state of the art of internal combustion engines at the time. With chapters on Recent Combustion Theories; Ideal and Real Efficiencies; Volumetric Efficiency; Altitude Effects; Ideal Conditions for Petrol Engines; High-speed Compression-Ignition Engines; Detonation in Petrol; Engine Balance etc.