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Armstrong Siddeley Lynx

aircraft engine family by Armstrong Siddeley

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ689344 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Armstrong Siddeley Lynx is a British seven-cylinder aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. It was developed as a single row version of the two-row Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar. Testing began in 1920 and 6,000 had been produced by 1939. In Italy Alfa Romeo built a 200 horsepower (150 kW) licensed version of this engine named the Alfa Romeo Lynx.

Variants

Lynx I

1920, 150 hp (110 kW).

Lynx II

1920, 184 hp (137 kW).

Lynx III

1924, 200 hp (150 kW).

Lynx IV

1929, 180 hp (130 kW).

Lynx IVA

1930, 188 hp (140 kW).

Lynx IVB

1930, 215 hp (160 kW).

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“Armstrong Siddeley Lynx” enters the record as aircraft engine family by Armstrong Siddeley. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Armstrong, Siddeley and Lynx can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1939, 1924, 1929—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Armstrong, Siddeley and Lynx.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q689344. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1939, 1924 and 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “Armstrong Siddeley Lynx” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.