New Ruston aquisition

Never ceases to amaze me that engines are available within a stones throw without us knowing but someone travels many miles to buy them.

Not complaining you understand 'cos have had it happen where I have been the benefactor.

Good luck Kim

In message , Kim Siddorn writes

Hi Kim,

Either there are some dodgy serial numbers out there or some amazing coincidences.

This is the second time in two years that someone has asked the date of a

6PB that has a serial number within 10 of my engine (195167), the last one was only 3 engines away from mine!

This almost certainly dates your engine to 1939 (mine was supplied in July

1939).

Does it spark? Damned Villiers mag on mine is caput at the moment. Like you, it's not exactly my kind of engine so the mag fix is about no. 99,999 on the list.

There's a thing ;o)) I'd bet my bottom Dollar the s/n plate is original & undisturbed, so p'raps a cache of RH's survived the war concealed in some way - like the recent find dramatised (!) in SEM about the 18 Wafflard engines found in Belgium. It would explain why a Lister D (getting in in three weeks time) & this RH PB are in such apparently original condition.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana

You could well be right. Unfortunately, mine clearly was not part of such a cache :)

That'll be an oily rag job then? ;o))

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

You'll have to let me know who supply's your oily rags because, unless I've got a duff batch, mine didn't seem capable of turning it Lincoln green and fixing the mag! :)

Hi All As many know I am not to good with 2006 technology :-), flames seem to be more my line, so I do not get on here as often as I would like to, when I do, the topics have passed by that I think I might be able to contribute to.

Anyway my first engine was a PB, no 203614 despatched 31st Dec 1940, Ray dated this for me in 1972. I must dig it out and give it a run.

I hope the link to a picture works.

Geoff Challinor

That's a very nice little engine. I've always had a soft spot for those little Rustons. But I shouldn't buy another engine. Not just now...

Best wishes,

Chris

I have to agrre there Chris. Ive always like the little PB's. But for some reason I ended up buying the bigger version (a 3hp).

Lately iI seem to be collecting Rustons though. I now have the PB, a 2PS, a PT (which was actually made by Wolseley's, but fitted to a Ruston Compressor set), and a 4 1/2hp PR.

Mike M

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