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[Alan R]

Let's try this instead}---------

[Felix]

Thanks for the interesting thread. I never knew about these odd machines and now I have to watch Frenzy start to finish!

[Valsp]

Some years ago I saw a working scale model at the Model Engineers Exhibition at Sandown Park. Amazing piece of work. God knows how many years it took them to make it

[papasmurf]

Another strange engine which I suspect few people have heard of is that used by Wooler Motorcyles.
https://www.highpowermedia.com/blog/396 ... ler-engine

[OldBoy67]

Hi papasmurf. That Wooler triggered a flashback. I remember seeing it at the London Motorcycle Show (Earls Court?) In the 1950's. My father took me when I was a child. I seem to recall Wooler claimed that there were only 2 nut sizes so the engine could be dismantled with just 2 spanners?

[papasmurf]

I think Wooler were a nice looking motorcycle:

[papasmurf]

[Alan R]

A starter motor that works first time, eh ??------------ Those "foreign" bikes will never have them fitted !! ........... Enfield Marine made a similar-looking horizontally-opposed Diesel known as the }--- HO2....with a choice of either hand start (on a diesel ) OR a starter motor....

------------------------------- and here's the Workshop Manual for it }-----http://www.oldengine.org/members/evans/ ... uction.pdf

[Bet]

That looks like a horizontally opposed engine at a training establishment in Gosport back in the 80's. As an aside, Deltic 2 stroke diesels are still used in Trent class RNLI life boats.

[Alan R]

Hi BET---- are you sure about that ??........I thought they had German M.A.N. V10 or V12 engines....?? The Royal Navy first used a captured E-Boat to trial a Marinised Deltic.. After the successful trials they were fitted in the DARK class high speed patrol boats ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-class_patrol_boat ) .....and then the TON class mine sweepers were re-engined with them (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton-class_minesweeper )