Updated: 29-Aug-2018
"Stablimenti Farina" was an in Turin based car manufacturer that went into the building of aviation engines with the models "Algol" and "Alioth". Both were seven-cylinder radial engines and the difference between the two was that the "Algol" was geared and the "Alioth" was not. Later they built the T-58.
-At the Palermo Museum there is a Farina radial engine with reference T-58. It is a 5-cylinder.
"Farina Algol"
-Above we show an illustration of the "Algol" that gave 92/100 CV. With the carburetor at the rear and the two magnetos at the front.
-But another Farina engine is known, with reference T-58, and giving 130 CV. This is a radial engine as well.
"The Farina engine with reference T-58"
From Appendix 10: Farina engines are hardly known, but we have located on the network that at least one T-58 was installed in a hovercraft canoe to try to break speed records on water in the 1930's.
"Italian hovercraft for speed records"
-And another T58 was installed on a Caproni Ca-100 hydroplane. We found this picture on the Italian Wikipedia site.
"Caproni Ca-100 hydroplane with a Farina T-58 engine"
The 5-cylinder Farina T-58 radial engine exhibited at a museum.
"Farina T-58"
Engines of FARINA
Model: Algol
Arquitecture: 7-cylinder Radial
Cooling:
Total Displacement:
Bore / Stroke:
Power: 100 CV
Weight:
"Farina Algol front view"
Model: Alioth
Arquitecture: 7-cylinder Radial
Cooling:
Total Displacement:
Bore / Stroke:
Power:
Weight:
Model: T-58
Arquitecture: 5-cylinder Radial
Cooling:
Total Displacement:
Bore / Stroke:
Power: 130 CV
Weight:
"Farina T58 fig. 2"