Manilla Rally Pics

Great selection of engines Patrick, most of which are not common sights on UK rally fields. Thanks for sharing these with us.

In message , Patrick M Livingstone writes

Looks like a pretty good rally - bit far from me in west London though!

Like the Bradford 'King of All' (I have a 2 1/4 hp), unless of course it is a recent import, I didn't realise they travelled so far and wide. They must have had a hard time competing on price with American engines and of course the home grown product.

Nice too to see the various Farm Pumpers - I don't think we got those here originally (don't know why, the wind pumps they were aimed at replacing were popular enough) and I can't remember that last time I saw one at a rally.

Particularly like the look of the McDonald Imperials, small horizontal diesels are another thing which seem to have been more popular elswhere than UK.

Hi Nick, the Bradfords are not too common here but there are a few around. They would not have had too hard a time competing with other products here as they would have attracted no import duty being a British Empire product. The Farm Pumpers are pretty common at rallys here. They were sold here in vast numbers over a long time. The first Fuller & Johnson ones were made in

1909 and the last Australian made ones were made in the 1950s. I am not a big fan of diesels but the McDonalds are a very nicely made, and sweet running engine with a distinctive exhuast note. Patrick