C106 copper tube Rolls-Royce engine cylinder blocks A passion for Rolls-Royce cars and an ambition to perfect the design of cylinder blocks are the twin engines of Kent-based Ameeco Engineering. The company uses C106 copper tubing as part of its Rolls-Royce 20hp cylinder blocks that are now supplied worldwide. The Rolls-Royce Twenty was produced between 1922 and 1929. Designed by Sir Henry Royce, the car entered the market as a small car successor to the Silver Ghost. Ameeco Engineering manufactures new engine cylinder blocks for this historic vehicle. “The blocks in the day were made of cast iron,” begins Derek Smith, one of the co-directors of Ameeco. “Ours are too but the thin-walled construction is particularly di?cult to make, leading to a documented failure rate of 80% when produced.

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