⚙ Stationary Engines - UK

Can we help an Aussie.

An Australian friend is trying to identify this engine for his friend. It has 4 spoke flywheels and I cannot see any dr...

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posted by dave.croft

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Vincent lifeboat engine and double acting pistons

How does this thing work then? AIUI, it's basically a two-cylinder opposed-piston cylinder-ported petrol two-stroke, wi...

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posted by dingbat

7 comments posted 16yrs posted by dingbat

Articles?

Gents I saw this article recently on another forum:...

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posted by roland

11 comments posted 16yrs posted by roland

Pleasant music for an engine mans ears!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAbGlDn6eE&feature=channelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7hMMo_FvQThese are Norwegian...

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posted by dave.croft

0 comments posted 16yrs posted by dave.croft

Commer TS3

What's the proper name for this thing? Commer TS3? Rootes TS3? If Eric Coy of Humber designed the beast in 1948, and Ro...

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posted by dingbat

2 comments posted 16yrs posted by dingbat

Opposed piston engines

Is it fair to say that all "modern" (post 1930?) opposed piston engines have been two-stroke uniflow diesels? Or at lea...

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posted by dingbat

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iIntroduction or .......ramblings from the back of my garage

Good evening everyone, at the moment I am loking for a Lister CS 6hp diesel with the intention of driving a generator t...

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posted by cox.nigelcox.nigel

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Job offer with an interesting promise of training 8-)

Graduate Development Engineer Working in the Gas Engines Development Department, which is responsible for design, devel...

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posted by dingbat

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OT - WW2 stuff

Thought you'd all like to see this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300385993932 and this http://cg...

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posted by kim.siddorn

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Great British train Rides BBC2 18:30 with Michael Portillo

Gentlemen, Anybody watching the most interesting series over the last few weeks, I've been most impressed until tonight...

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posted by martin.perman

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OT; presents

Gentlemen, Today I did what I absolutely hate, in town on my own trying to buy my wife Christmas presents and a Birthda...

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posted by martin.perman

5 comments posted 16yrs posted by martin.perman

What are you doing at Christmas?

We are planning to spend an extended weekend with my daughter and Son-in-law in deepest Dorset. They have recently move...

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posted by admin

26 comments posted 16yrs posted by admin

quiet at the moment

Hello hello hello hello is there anybody there there there. Where are you all you all you all. Martin P

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posted by martin.perman

9 comments posted 16yrs posted by martin.perman

Gibb & Hogg (Airdrie Engineers) info wanted

Our family mythology has it that an ancestor on my father's side was a partner in a large engineering works. My great g...

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posted by me

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OT - a bit of Christmas Cheer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU Regards, Kim Siddorn

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posted by kim.siddorn

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