By Tom GOSLING

SCIENCR REPORTER of the Melbourne Herald

 The article dated Thursday April 5 1990

Move over Ralph Sarich, here comes the Hilton engine a revolutionary internal combustion engine which could earn billions for Australia.

That is if 45 Year-old Seaford inventor Mr. Barry Hilton can find an Australian company or individual willing to have a go and back him

Mr. Hilton's engine has been a well-kept secret for 10 years, but today I became the first outsider to see it ran as he fired it up in his back yard.

I wouldn't have believed any engine could work only three moving parts, but work it did, with amazing smoothness and efficiency.

COOL

The exhaust manifold, usually hot In a normal engine within a minute, was still cool enough to touch after 10 minutes.

This wasn't because it was powered by invisible rubber bands. It means that the engine produces less waste heat than a normal engine.

Mr Hilton hasn't run bench tests on his prototype but he expects it will be 25 per cent and possibly 50 per cent more efficient than normal engines.

 That’s because no unburnt fuel escapes from the exhaust and no energy is wasted by unnecessary friction or eccentrically moving parts like con rods.

'There are no con rods, crankshafts, flywheels, springs, poppet-type valves, cylinder head distributor, valve timing gear and no critical parts to adjust or slip out of timing," said the Inventor.

Mr Hilton's extraordinary engine works with only two diametrically opposed pistons moving freely within a round block encased in an oval-shaped chamber.

The pistons have rollers at their ends.

When a spark plug ignites a fuel mixture between the pistons, they expand outwards and thrust the rollers so that they run around the inside of the chamber - and it's as simple as that.

It's a totally different concept of engine, and balances the combustion force with a centrifugal force in harmony with the laws of motion.

Mr Hilton has no hope that the engine will he quickly taken up by car manufacturers ("they're such an old boys' club") but he thinks it will be practical to make stationary engines for irrigation pumps and generators.

There's a huge international market for these engines - and a market for more sophisticated models could grow from there.

This should earn enough money to finance expansion into lawn mowers, rotary hoes, whipper snippers and other garden and farm tools. And eventually moving into the big league of motorbikes cars ,boats helicopters and so on.

Mr Hilton's patent-applied-for invention has none of the friction and sealing problems that plagued the Sarich engine and could be a good way of re establishing this industry in our country.

BHP, are you listening? ( the largest Australian Mining and metals company )

Further information can be obtained from the source that sent me the clipping.

Nutech 2000

Box 255

Ivanhoe

Victoria 3097

Australia