Instructions for the Care and Operations of Model A-I. and E. Hispano-Suiza Aeronautical Engines Birkigt Patents. Instruction Book. July, 1918. Series No.4A
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, 1918. Cloth bound technical handbook measuring 120 x 195 mm., 216 pages in series, incorporating numerous illustrations and diagrams (including 17 portrait plates of First War aces who flew with Hispano-Suiza engines). Additional to the integral illustrations are ten folding plates, principally comprising cut-away engine diagrams. Cloth backstrip of the spine split and becoming detached; two leaves and some plates are loose. Otherwise internally well preserved and complete, As the Societe Hispano-Suiza were unable to meet wartime demand for their engines (following adoption by the French) production commenced by the Wright-Martin Company in New Jersey. The Hispano-Suiza engine was presented to the French in 1916, and when fitted to the Spad was brought into frontline action in August 1916 during the battle of the Somme. In the course of the War, much French aviation success was attributed to the superiority of these engines. Item #2946
Property of Lieutenant Jas. P. Hutchinson.
Price (AUD): $250.00