Re: Park Hall Rally Pics this link might work

Nice pics Arthur.

Wot no Merlins??

I liked the small, noisy and overvalued MarVil (carb must be off the racing version!) but not as much as I liked the Ruston with the built in compressor. Yum ............

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a free frontal lobotomy!

Is the Crossley like yours? That's the reason I posted it. Regards, Arthur G

I was tired and went to bed in disgust, rather than persevering

try this, if this doesn't work, I give up.

Great pics Arthur, the Crossley is my favorite especially as it is "working livery"

Got there at last! And I am stung by your comments on the poor little Mar-Vil ;-)

As for the Watts Sheffield - the con rod and big end do not look very Bradfordian but the rest certainly does.

Awww, Nick, I didn't mean to wound you.

The apple of my eye is my Powell 3hp which is noisy, smelly, dirty and was dear.

Unlike the MarVil it runs like an asthmatic dementoid. When I've fiddled and tweaked and pleaded with it and it's really running well, it will run on an eight stroke cycle for me.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

Regards, Arthur G

Interesting one that Dave, copy of running instructions I have is dated Dec

As for which engines should be correctly referred to as Mar-Vil and which as Century - I would say that all the smaller engines are Mar-Vils (remember the cylinder dimensions inherited from the Johnson Utilimotor) and the larger versions are Centurys. However that is just my personal opinion and unless we can dig up any contemporary Villiers marketing material we cannot be sure.

The parts list again covers both, adding a "C" suffix to those parts unique to the Century. It is interesting to note that among the parts common to both engines is the base tank and it is of course this part which usually bears the Century or Mar-Vil designation.

Hi Nick, I suffer with memory problems & your mentioning the Handbook reminded me to look at my website for the first time in years. Look what I found at,

-- Dave Croft Warrington England

Ah, sorry Arthur, dim of me. I did see the pic, but although mine's a 1075, it's hopper cooled. I think the separate tank engines are much prettier, especially Rustons ;o))

Thanks for thinking of me!

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

At Haddenham was a Standard 'Farm Pet', again very Bradford like but with fully machined con rod and crank like the Watts Sheffield. Owner said it was made in Keighley and, despite the similarity was not a badge engineered Bradford.

Pete Aldous has just posted a picture of the Farm Pet