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companies, which included the Rolloy Piston Co. Port
Melbourne. After a victory in the same year for the car in the Formula 2 event at Woodside, South Australia, the Vincent motor was fitted with a supercharger and tuned for Hill climb events by Irving. With Irving and Boardman as pit assistants, the car’s notable successes were fastest time of the day at the Rob Roy Hill climbs in 1952 and 1953. On the second run in 1953, Hunt was awarded the year’s Australian Hill Climb Championship.
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and fitted by Irving to Reg Hunt’s special racing car, which was similar to a Cooper called the ‘Flying
Bedstead’, at Hunt’s residence in Elsternwick Victoria with the assistance of Dick Boardman, a draftsman working with Irving, who was at the time Chief Engineer of the Chamberlain Group of
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engine specifications due for 1966. This engine was built around the 3.5-litre
Oldsmobile V8 cylinder block design and became known as the RB620. It incorporated some 'off-the-'shelf' technology such as Vincent valve inspection caps and BSA 500cc Gold Star cam profiles.
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during his war years at the company. Irving also designed the prototype Model 'O' Velocette, a shaft-drive twin cylinder machine of 600cc capacity and loosely based on the supercharged 500cc racing machine known as 'The Roarer'.
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Irving was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the
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as a design and production engineer working on metallurgy, developing pioneering techniques to form aluminium castings around the cast-iron barrels used for the motorcycle engine cylinders.
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125cc racing engine supplied by
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in 1979 when he rose to President (an honorary title). Irving held the presidency until his death on 14 January 1992.
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won the 1966 Formula 1 Driver's Championship and the Manufacturers' Championship using this engine.
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