Picture credits

Photos

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  Henry Ford Museum August 2012 67 (1963 Chrysler gas turbine sedan).jpg
  by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes. Shared here under the same licence.
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  1963 Chrysler Turbine (30933107014).jpg
  by Greg Gjerdingen from Willmar, USA, CC BY 2.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes.
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  1963 Chrysler Turbine Ghia Coupe at PB 2022 engine.jpg
  by Prova MO, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes. Shared here under the same licence.
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  Chrysler Turbine Car dashboard -- Walter P Chrysler Museum 10-23-2010 108 N.jpg
  by Corvair Owner, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes. Shared here under the same licence.
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  Chrysler Turbine Car Worlds Fair 1964.jpg
  by Rochkind, CC BY 3.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes.
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  Stahls Automotive Collection December 2021 150 (1963 Chrysler Turbine engine).jpg
  by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes. Shared here under the same licence.
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  Chrysler Turbine exhaust.JPG
  by Oaktree b, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized; no other changes. Shared here under the same licence.

Our own drawings

• Simplified flow drawing of the A-831 gas turbine: air enters a compressor, is warmed in two spinning regenerators, burns in the burner, spins a compressor turbine on the same shaft as the compressor, passes a variable nozzle and spins a separate power turbine that drives reduction gears and the TorqueFlite gearbox; the exhaust goes back through the regenerators and leaves much cooler.
  Our own drawing
• Side drawing of the Chrysler Turbine Car: a long, low coupe with the A-831 turbine under the bonnet, the TorqueFlite gearbox behind it, a propeller shaft to the driven rear wheels, a long exhaust run under the car and twin exhausts at the back.
  Our own drawing
• Bar chart: the time for the gas generator to accelerate from idle to full power was 7 seconds in Chrysler’s 1954 to 1959 engines, 3 seconds in the 1962 engine, and 1.5 to 2 seconds in the engines of the 50 cars.
  Our own drawing
• Chart comparing quoted turbine speeds: Hemmings (McCourt) idle about 8,000 and 50,000 rpm at full throttle; Road and Track (Lehto) idle over 10,000 with a rev counter reading to 60,000; the Hagerty Drivers Foundation over 18,000 to 45,000; Hagerty in 2021 an idle of 18,000 to 22,000; Jay Leno an idle of 22,000 and up to 50,000.
  Our own drawing

The drawings are simplified teaching drawings, not to scale, made from the sourced descriptions on this site. Useless the eraser is the network’s own mascot. Fonts: Bricolage Grotesque, Newsreader and Kalam (SIL Open Font Licence), served from this site.