A brushless winding field type rotary electric machine between a starting device and a stationary case, having a stator held in the case and internally equipped with an AC coil generating a rotating magnetic field by an AC current; a field core held in the case and internally equipped with a field coil excited by a DC current; a rotor disposed around the starting device outer periphery and rotatable with respect to the stator and the field coil; a first air gap formed between the stator and the rotor, delivering a magnetic flux between the two; a second air gap formed between the field core and the rotor, delivering a magnetic flux between the two. The second air gap has an inclined section inclined with respect to a rotation shaft axial direction so that the rotor radially outer portion is positioned on the radially outer side than the field core.