Blackstone Information Wanted

John:

Talk to Michael Key, his website details are in my sig below, his full contact details are in the site.

Peter

Kind regards,

Peter

Peter Forbes Prepair Ltd Luton, UK email: snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk home: snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk

John --

I have an SFC 12hp with the air start cylinder (Model BG). Mine's in lots of bits, but I'll try to locate the air valve. There's not that many of these engines about.

There is another in Oz. Patrick Livingstone has a couple of pix of it on his site. A most unusual colour scheme ..... if you track it down, I'd like to know the owner to swap some stories & pix (but I won't need his colour charts...)

Philip T-E on this list pointed me to one in Leicester Museum. It's a bit smaller than mine (probably an 8hp), & it is fixed, rather than portable. The museum staff were immensely helpful & dug it out from its buried hiding hole for me to take pix. Happy to send those pix over. I didn't note many measurements, but have enough to give rough scale, but not to create engineering drawings ......

Colin

Local guy with a CSI was in at the weekend - its in bits so doing a drawing of the valve would not be too hard.

Paul

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