Just don”t forget what I mentioned about getting to the standard to fit the cylinders with extra studs.

Going back to Ian Hewson's two photos posted 03/02/18, what a lovely looking engine, beautifully finished, a credit to you Ian.

Chris

The Black Country Living Museum are very strict about the territory. The Perkins Heritage Group have a 1923 Autocrat car, (one of only two left). We offered it to BCM. It was declined since it was manufactured in Balsall Heath which isn't in the Black Country!

It was terrible to see machine tools left in a field, already rusty, from being without any protection, not even a sheet or tarpaulin.

Probably, the last of the Tangye ("We launched the Great Eastern. The Great Eastern launched us" family was the late Derek Tangye, a charming man, who moved, with his wife, to a remote part of Cornwall to write books, grow tomatoes and daffodils. The books were the more lucrative crop!.  Tangyes went on to manufacture large compression ignition engines (There is one at The WaterWorks Museum in Hereford, which until relatively recently ran under its own power.  Since a crack was found in a crank web, it has been rotated by an electric motor)

Howard

Edited By Howard Lewis on 06/02/2018 11:00:42