Can you identify this engine?

Dave,

a modified WX11

Looks like a Bitza, the crankcase could be from a Villiers m/cycle engine.

The rest seems to be a load of bits made up to fit.

Peter

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a modified WX11

its a modified WX11

Are we all looking at the right picture ?? :-))

Peter

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The picture of the unknown engine is

nothing above it as suggested by Dave.

Regards

Andy M

What Villiers marine, I can only see an engine?

I see a picture of an engine mounted on wooden bearers. Above the engine is a red fuel tank with a Villiers transfer. The engine looks a bit like a small Bollinder (maybe).

Sounds like some folks have a browser problem.

gentlemen,

I appear to have left a wooden spo>>

Except that the picture is identified as Villier Marine, I am assumeing the blue one with the red tank above is the Villiers. There are no other engines in the picture.

Regards

Andy M

That's what I saw, and why I queried what everyone else was looking at.

The EIC Mag size means that it is really a small engine, nothing that diddy was made by Bolinders, and as far as I remember, they only made oil engines?

The top of the cylinder looks a bit Evinrude, but I still think it is a Bitza of some kind :-))

A small two-cylinder Bolinder is at:

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Who made Bitza engines, that's a name I can't find in my books.

Good point, it is a lot smaller than I first thought. Probably only 1 or 2 HP Too small to be main propulsion for anything bigger than a small river launch or perhaps it is an auxilliary, maybe driving a generator. Maybe some of the canal guys in uk.rec.waterways might recognise it. I still think that the Villiers label on the tank is a complete red herring.

It must be tiny, it looks quite small even with the water jacket round it. Looks like a Villiers crankcase, but what do I know about boat engines, I've got a magneto like that though.

Martin

Maybe it was originally a Villiers. There were many small engineering companies making a living from marinizing assorted engines and a Villiers would have been a good candidate due to their excellent spares availability. Maybe someone has soldered a copper or brass water jacket around a stock air cooled cylinder.