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MR. JUDGE set himself a difficult task when he decided to compress into less than 250 pages an account of high-speed Diesel engines, which (as he hopes in the preface) will be equally suitable for engineers, students and operators. The needs of the second and third of these groups, if not almost mutually exclusive, are at least difficult to harmonise: the operator must think chiefly of details whilst the student's essential need is to grasp general principles and view the subject as an articulated whole. Nonetheless, the author has achieved his aim in a remarkable degree, and no one who professes, or desires to profess, a close acquaintanceship with this type of engine can afford to ignore Mr. Judge's contribution. The title chosen for the book may be questioned, though the author makes some defence of his choice in urging that the name Diesel engine is more readily recognisable than compression-ignition engine. There we think he is wrong; the latter name is already well enough known to those for whom he writes even if not to the world of the “Press and General Public” to suit which his choice of title was, he admits, mainly selected.
High Speed Diesel Engines, with Special Reference to Automobile and Aircraft Types: an Elementary Textbook for Engineers, Students and Operators.
By Arthur W. Judge. Pp. viii + 248 + 35 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1933.) 10s. 6d. net.
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High Speed Diesel Engines, with Special Reference to Automobile and Aircraft Types: an Elementary Textbook for Engineers, Students and Operators . Nature 133, 121 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133121a0
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