For these reasons, it appears to us that a further article on the Ten-Sixty-Six range in general and the Conqueror in particular is well justified.Īs its title suggests, the present article will focus primarily on the Ten-Sixty-Six Conqueror engine itself. Quite apart from the availability of a huge amount of new information from the above sources, the arrival of a more or less unused Conqueror Mk I built from a kit to a very good standard has allowed us to delve into the engine and describe it more fully for the record. Having acknowledged the very considerable assistance provided to me by the above gentlemen, I must emphasize that the responsibility for any errors or omissions in the following texts rests with me and me alone. Finally, I'm most grateful for the invaluable assistance of my friend Kevin Richards, who responded to a number of requests for information during the preparation of this article. I also wish to pay tribute to my friend and colleague Alan Strutt of Somerset, England, from whom I acquired the pristine example of the Conqueror which appears in this article and who was kind enough to provide me with some of the available background information regarding this rare and hitherto rather obscure motor. I'm proud to include Hugh among my valued friends and colleagues. The pooling of information in this manner between two groups of researchers who are approaching the same subject from different angles can only be beneficial both to the researchers involved and to their readers. Hastings and the products of the company. In addition, Hugh was kind enough to provide me with my own copy of his very detailed write-up on the life and times of Ten-Sixty-Six founder G. Highly recommended! I‘m deeply grateful to On The Wire's Hugh Blowers, who is probably the world's leading authority on Ten-Sixty-Six and was most generous in providing information and images as well as reading my draft text to keep me on the right track. Some of the engineering that goes into these models and the engines that power them is quite remarkable, and any MEN reader will find something of interest there.
This site is an absolute gold-mine of information on tethered car and hydroplane racing past and present.
Since the publication of the initial article on the Ten-Sixty-Six range on this site, a great deal of new information regarding the manufacturers themselves has become available on the outstanding On the Wireweb-site dedicated to tethered model car and hydroplane racing. In stating that this British racing engine has tended to be overlooked, we have to admit that we're guilty as charged ourselves-despite its mention in the earlier article, we forgot to include it as part of the domestic competition in our subsequent write-up on the Nordec 10cc motors! But we're not alone here-even the usually comprehensive Peter Chinn overlooked the Conqueror in his retrospective on classic racing engines entitled Exit the Racing Engine? which appeared in the March 1956 issue of Model Aircraft magazine-the only British-made racing units mentioned in that article were those from Nordec, Rowell and ETA. The present text will focus on the 10cc Conqueror. Readers wishing to learn more about the Ten-Sixty-Six 5cc models are referred to the earlier article. The firm's 10cc model known as the Ten-Sixty-Six Conqueror was mentioned but not discussed in depth. In a previous article published on this site in 2004, a limited amount of information was provided regarding the rather obscure British Ten-Sixty-Six range, including some discussion of a number of the 5cc models offered by that manufacturer. However, there's another 1066 Conqueror that has been largely forgotten, at least in aeromodelling circles! Most people seem to remember William the Conqueror who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and thus made himself King of England. The Manufacturer The 10cc Conqueror-Background and Development The Mk I Conqueror-Detailed Description The Conqueror on test Conclusion